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
#f3ebcd
#f3ebcd
hex
#f3ebcdrgb
rgb(243, 235, 205)hsl
hsl(47, 61%, 88%)oklch
oklch(0.939 0.04 94.7)Closest name: Champagne (#f7e7ce)Relative luminance 0.8288
Colors that go with #f3ebcd
Charcoal, Sky Blue and Lilac 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 #f3ebcd: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #f3ebcd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #f3ebcd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #f3ebcd in 27 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Cargo's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #f3ebcd in 9 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 #f3ebcd in 7 real palettes, including Estate and Blush, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #f3ebcd in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #f3ebcd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f3ebcd 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 #f3ebcd as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f3ebcd reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f3ebcd
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 #f3ebcd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f3ebcd-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-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