Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#554e3a
#554e3a
hex
#554e3argb
rgb(85, 78, 58)hsl
hsl(44, 19%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.425 0.033 91)Closest name: Broccoli Green (#4b5338)Relative luminance 0.0769
Colors that go with #554e3a
Teal, Blue and Champagne 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 #554e3a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #554e3a, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #554e3a, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #554e3a: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #554e3a: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #554e3a in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Chime's brand system, as the lead colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #554e3a in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Tumblr's brand system, as the accent.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #554e3a wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #554e3a reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #554e3a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #554e3a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.28:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.54:1 | 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 #554e3a 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
#554e3a reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #554e3a
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 #554e3a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/554e3a-c4be9c-62b1cb-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