Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#5e4d45
#5e4d45
hex
#5e4d45rgb
rgb(94, 77, 69)hsl
hsl(19, 15%, 32%)oklch
oklch(0.435 0.026 46.6)Closest name: Black Power (#654b37)Relative luminance 0.0812
Colors that go with #5e4d45
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 Dunkin''s brand system put Blue beside #5e4d45, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #5e4d45, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5e4d45: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5e4d45: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #5e4d45 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Candlelight, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Bakery and Paper & Pine put Peru beside #5e4d45, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #5e4d45: 4 real palettes, including Nursery and Stone, as the supporting colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #5e4d45 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #5e4d45
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5e4d45 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 #5e4d45 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
#5e4d45 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #5e4d45
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 #5e4d45 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/5e4d45-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?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