Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#f2e5ce
#f2e5ce
hex
#f2e5cergb
rgb(242, 229, 206)hsl
hsl(38, 58%, 88%)oklch
oklch(0.926 0.034 82)Closest name: Ancient Scroll (#f0e4d1)Relative luminance 0.7937
Colors that go with #f2e5ce
Charcoal, Lilac and Plum 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #f2e5ce: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #f2e5ce on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #f2e5ce — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #f2e5ce: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f2e5ce in 17 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #f2e5ce in 37 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #f2e5ce in 11 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #f2e5ce in 7 real palettes, including Estate and Blush, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #f2e5ce
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f2e5ce as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.24:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.87:1 | 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 #f2e5ce as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
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.
Fonts for this mood
#f2e5ce reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f2e5ce
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #f2e5ce and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f2e5ce-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?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