Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#5c482e
#5c482e
hex
#5c482ergb
rgb(92, 72, 46)hsl
hsl(34, 33%, 27%)oklch
oklch(0.416 0.048 73.2)Closest name: Black Power (#654b37)Relative luminance 0.0711
Colors that go with #5c482e
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 #5c482e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #5c482e 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 #5c482e, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #5c482e, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5c482e: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5c482e in 4 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5c482e: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #5c482e wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #5c482e reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #5c482e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5c482e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.67:1 | 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 #5c482e 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
#5c482e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #5c482e
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 #5c482e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/5c482e-c4b79c-62c2cb-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