Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Color
#f8d0be
#f8d0be
hex
#f8d0bergb
rgb(248, 208, 190)hsl
hsl(19, 81%, 86%)oklch
oklch(0.887 0.051 45.6)Closest name: Apricot Freeze (#f3cfb7)Relative luminance 0.6879
Colors that go with #f8d0be
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Goldenrod 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 #f8d0be: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f8d0be on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Goldenrod #daa520
analogousshippedGoldenrod is #f8d0be's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Lilac #c8a2c8
triadicshippedLilac completes a triad with #f8d0be — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f8d0be in 6 real palettes, including Ember and Blueprint, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #f8d0be, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Garnet put Brown beside #f8d0be, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #f8d0be: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f8d0be
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f8d0be as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.76:1 | 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 #f8d0be 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
#f8d0be reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f8d0be
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 #f8d0be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f8d0be-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?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