Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#5f4530
#5f4530
hex
#5f4530rgb
rgb(95, 69, 48)hsl
hsl(27, 33%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.413 0.048 59.8)Closest name: Brunette (#664238)Relative luminance 0.069
Colors that go with #5f4530
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 #5f4530: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #5f4530 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 #5f4530, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #5f4530, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5f4530: 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5f4530 in 4 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5f4530: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #5f4530 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #5f4530 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #5f4530
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5f4530 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.82:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.38:1 | 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 #5f4530 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
#5f4530 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #5f4530
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 #5f4530 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/5f4530-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-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