Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#514b3d
#514b3d
hex
#514b3drgb
rgb(81, 75, 61)hsl
hsl(42, 14%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.414 0.024 87.6)Closest name: Armadillo (#484a46)Relative luminance 0.0712
Colors that go with #514b3d
Blush Pink, Champagne and Copper 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.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #514b3d 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 #514b3d 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 #514b3d 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.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #514b3d 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.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #514b3d in 4 real palettes, including Microsoft's brand system and First Snow, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #514b3d in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Tumblr's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #514b3d in 4 real palettes, including Nursery and Stone, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #514b3d was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #514b3d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #514b3d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.66:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.42:1 | 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 #514b3d 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
#514b3d reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #514b3d
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 #514b3d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/514b3d-c4bc9c-62b4cb-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