Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#554a35
#554a35
hex
#554a35rgb
rgb(85, 74, 53)hsl
hsl(39, 23%, 27%)oklch
oklch(0.414 0.036 83.3)Closest name: Black Power (#654b37)Relative luminance 0.0709
Colors that go with #554a35
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
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #554a35 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #554a35 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #554a35, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #554a35, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #554a35: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #554a35 in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #554a35: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #554a35 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #554a35 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #554a35
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #554a35 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.69:1 | 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 #554a35 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
#554a35 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #554a35
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 #554a35 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/554a35-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-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