Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#f0ecccrgb(240, 236, 204)hsl(53, 55%, 87%)oklch(0.938 0.042 101.3)Charcoal, Lilac and Sand lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Charcoal is the body-text near-black for #f0eccc: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac sits directly opposite #f0eccc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sand is #f0eccc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue is a split-complement of #f0eccc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber is paired with #f0eccc in 17 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
37 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #f0eccc, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with #f0eccc in 11 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
7 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #f0eccc, as the accent.
| #f0eccc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.19:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.58:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #f0eccc as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#f0eccc reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #f0eccc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/f0eccc-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md