Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#5c4e42
#5c4e42
hex
#5c4e42rgb
rgb(92, 78, 66)hsl
hsl(28, 16%, 31%)oklch
oklch(0.434 0.027 62.6)Closest name: Black Power (#654b37)Relative luminance 0.0812
Colors that go with #5c4e42
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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #5c4e42, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #5c4e42.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5c4e42: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5c4e42: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #5c4e42 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Bakery put Peru beside #5c4e42, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #5c4e42: 4 real palettes, including Nursery and Stone, as the supporting colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #5c4e42 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #5c4e42
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5c4e42 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.62:1 | 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 #5c4e42 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
#5c4e42 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #5c4e42
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 #5c4e42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/5c4e42-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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