Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#5f4e45
#5f4e45
hex
#5f4e45rgb
rgb(95, 78, 69)hsl
hsl(21, 16%, 32%)oklch
oklch(0.439 0.027 49.5)Closest name: Black Power (#654b37)Relative luminance 0.0831
Colors that go with #5f4e45
Champagne, Copper and Denim 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #5f4e45, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5f4e45: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bakery, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5f4e45: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Bakery and Paper & Pine put Peru beside #5f4e45, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #5f4e45: 4 real palettes, including Nursery and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #5f4e45 in 4 real palettes, including Console Light and GitHub's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #5f4e45: 8 real palettes, including Darkroom and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #5f4e45 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #5f4e45
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5f4e45 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.89:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.66:1 | 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 #5f4e45 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
#5f4e45 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #5f4e45
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 #5f4e45 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/5f4e45-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-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