Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
Color
#f9e1cd
#f9e1cd
hex
#f9e1cdrgb
rgb(249, 225, 205)hsl
hsl(27, 79%, 89%)oklch
oklch(0.924 0.038 62.2)Closest name: Acropolis (#f8e2ca)Relative luminance 0.784
Colors that go with #f9e1cd
Charcoal, Dark Turquoise and Deep Sky Blue 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 #f9e1cd: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
split-complementshippedDark Turquoise is a split-complement of #f9e1cd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f9e1cd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #f9e1cd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #f9e1cd — 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 #f9e1cd in 21 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #f9e1cd, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #f9e1cd in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f9e1cd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f9e1cd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.26:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.68:1 | 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 #f9e1cd 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
#f9e1cd reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f9e1cd
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 #f9e1cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f9e1cd-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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