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Named color
White Elephant
#dedee5
hex
#dedee5rgb
rgb(222, 222, 229)hsl
hsl(240, 12%, 88%)oklch
oklch(0.903 0.009 286.2)Relative luminance 0.7343
White Elephant on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with White Elephant
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 White Elephant without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with White Elephant in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside White Elephant, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with White Elephant in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Estate and Nursery put Blush Pink beside White Elephant, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside White Elephant, as the accent.
Burgundy #800020
shipped5 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside White Elephant, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with White Elephant in 8 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Real palettes that use White Elephant
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| White Elephant as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.34:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.69:1 | 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 White Elephant 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
White Elephant reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around White Elephant
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 #dedee5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/dedee5-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?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