Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#97876d
#97876d
hex
#97876drgb
rgb(151, 135, 109)hsl
hsl(37, 17%, 51%)oklch
oklch(0.631 0.042 79.8)Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2501
Colors that go with #97876d
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #97876d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #97876d, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #97876d, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #97876d in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Oatmeal, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #97876d: 9 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #97876d: 4 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Notion's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #97876d in 5 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #97876d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #97876d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #97876d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.5:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #97876d 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
#97876d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #97876d
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 #97876d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/97876d-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?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