Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#514b38
#514b38
hex
#514b38rgb
rgb(81, 75, 56)hsl
hsl(46, 18%, 27%)oklch
oklch(0.413 0.031 92.6)Closest name: Hōjicha (#424f3b)Relative luminance 0.0707
Colors that go with #514b38
Teal, 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.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #514b38 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #514b38 in 4 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #514b38 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #514b38 in 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #514b38 in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #514b38 in 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #514b38 in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Docker's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #514b38 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #514b38 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #514b38
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #514b38 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.7:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.41:1 | 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 #514b38 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
#514b38 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #514b38
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 #514b38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/514b38-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