Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#554d3f
#554d3f
hex
#554d3frgb
rgb(85, 77, 63)hsl
hsl(38, 15%, 29%)oklch
oklch(0.424 0.025 81.6)Closest name: Armadillo (#484a46)Relative luminance 0.076
Colors that go with #554d3f
Champagne, Copper and Denim 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #554d3f, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #554d3f: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #554d3f: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #554d3f in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Tumblr's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #554d3f: 4 real palettes, including Nursery and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #554d3f in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and GitHub's brand system, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #554d3f: 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #554d3f was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #554d3f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #554d3f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.33:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.52:1 | 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 #554d3f 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
#554d3f reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #554d3f
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 #554d3f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/554d3f-c4ba9c-62bbcb-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