Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#554b35
#554b35
hex
#554b35rgb
rgb(85, 75, 53)hsl
hsl(41, 23%, 27%)oklch
oklch(0.417 0.037 86.3)Closest name: Broccoli Green (#4b5338)Relative luminance 0.0722
Colors that go with #554b35
Steel Blue, 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #554b35 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #554b35 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 #554b35 in 5 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 #554b35 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.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #554b35 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #554b35 in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and GitHub's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedSaddle Brown is paired with #554b35 in 4 real palettes, including Domino's's brand system and Darkroom, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #554b35 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #554b35 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #554b35
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #554b35 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.59:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.44:1 | 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 #554b35 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
#554b35 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #554b35
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 #554b35 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/554b35-c4bc9c-62b6cb-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