Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#554635
#554635
hex
#554635rgb
rgb(85, 70, 53)hsl
hsl(32, 23%, 27%)oklch
oklch(0.405 0.034 70.1)Closest name: Armadillo (#484a46)Relative luminance 0.0657
Colors that go with #554635
Teal, Steel Blue 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.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #554635: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #554635 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #554635, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #554635, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #554635, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #554635: 6 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Desert Road.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #554635 in 4 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the accent.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #554635 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #554635 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #554635
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #554635 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.08:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.31:1 | 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 #554635 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
#554635 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #554635
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 #554635 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/554635-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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