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
#f5ecd0
#f5ecd0
hex
#f5ecd0rgb
rgb(245, 236, 208)hsl
hsl(45, 65%, 89%)oklch
oklch(0.943 0.038 92.2)Closest name: Champagne (#f7e7ce)Relative luminance 0.8396
Colors that go with #f5ecd0
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 #f5ecd0: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #f5ecd0 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 #f5ecd0 — 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 #f5ecd0: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f5ecd0 in 21 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #f5ecd0, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #f5ecd0 in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Blush and Estate put Blush Pink beside #f5ecd0, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f5ecd0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f5ecd0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.18:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.79:1 | 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 #f5ecd0 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f5ecd0 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f5ecd0
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 #f5ecd0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f5ecd0-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-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