Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#fcf5df
#fcf5df
hex
#fcf5dfrgb
rgb(252, 245, 223)hsl
hsl(46, 83%, 93%)oklch
oklch(0.97 0.03 92.3)Closest name: oldlace (#fdf5e6)Relative luminance 0.9133
Colors that go with #fcf5df
Charcoal, Amber and 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #fcf5df without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #fcf5df in 37 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #fcf5df in 11 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Fly.io's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #fcf5df in 7 real palettes, including Blush and Nursery, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #fcf5df in 5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Garnet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burgundy #800020
shippedBurgundy is paired with #fcf5df in 4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fcf5df in 6 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fcf5df
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fcf5df as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.09:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 19.27:1 | 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 #fcf5df as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Resort
Open in tool →Terracotta, eucalyptus and sand — a sun-washed palette that feels like linen.
Homestead
Open in tool →Timber and olive for homes that photograph in golden hour; nothing here competes with a good listing photo.
Playground
Open in tool →Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.
Sunset Boulevard
Open in tool →Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.
Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Retro Pop
Open in tool →Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Harvest
Open in tool →Pumpkin, straw and burnt gold on parchment — the autumn palette that still feels like a product, not a place-mat.
Maple
Open in tool →The three colours a maple goes through in October, on a warm white — loud, seasonal, and readable because the type is near-black.
Cider
Open in tool →Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Night Market
Open in tool →Orange, magenta and yellow neon on aubergine-black — the street-sign palette for food, nightlife and events.
Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Golden Hour
Open in tool →Apricot into coral into plum — a sunset flattened to three tokens, with the plum doubling as the twilight text colour.
Dusk Gradient
Open in tool →Orange and peach on indigo-black with a violet — the last five minutes of a sunset, as a dark mode.
Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Fonts for this mood
#fcf5df reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fcf5df
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 #fcf5df and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fcf5df-c4bf9c-62adcb-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