Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#654d39rgb(101, 77, 57)hsl(27, 28%, 31%)oklch(0.44 0.045 61.1)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 is a split-complement of #654d39: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue sits directly opposite #654d39 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system put Blue beside #654d39, as the supporting colour.
5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #654d39, as the surface under it.
Designers have shipped Copper with #654d39: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Desert Road, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Denim with #654d39: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Bakery and Paper & Pine put Peru beside #654d39, as the supporting colour.
Cream is the surface #654d39 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #654d39 reads softer on it than on pure white.
| #654d39 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.85:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.67:1 | 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 #654d39 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
#654d39 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #654d39 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/654d39-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.
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