Frost & Ember
Open in tool →Navy and frost with one ember red — the classic cold-with-a-warm-accent structure, borrowed from a thousand ski posters.
Color
#f2fae1
#f2fae1
hex
#f2fae1rgb
rgb(242, 250, 225)hsl
hsl(79, 71%, 93%)oklch
oklch(0.972 0.034 121.5)Closest name: beige (#f5f5dc)Relative luminance 0.9268
Colors that go with #f2fae1
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 #f2fae1: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #f2fae1 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #f2fae1: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #f2fae1's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #f2fae1 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system put Blue beside #f2fae1, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #f2fae1 in 12 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Fly.io's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #f2fae1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f2fae1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.07:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 19.54:1 | 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 #f2fae1 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f2fae1 reads as vivid, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f2fae1
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 #f2fae1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f2fae1-b2bea2-4e66df-232d1f-f1f0e9?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