Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#514a38
#514a38
hex
#514a38rgb
rgb(81, 74, 56)hsl
hsl(43, 18%, 27%)oklch
oklch(0.411 0.03 89.3)Closest name: Ancient Pine (#444b43)Relative luminance 0.0693
Colors that go with #514a38
Blue, Blush Pink and Champagne 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system put Blue beside #514a38, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #514a38, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #514a38, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #514a38: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #514a38 in 5 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #514a38: 4 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #514a38 in 5 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Chime's brand system, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #514a38 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #514a38
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #514a38 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.8:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.39:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #514a38 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
#514a38 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #514a38
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 #514a38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/514a38-c4bd9c-62b2cb-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