Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#c5c4aargb(197, 196, 170)hsl(58, 19%, 72%)oklch(0.814 0.035 105.4)Charcoal, Lilac 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 is the body-text near-black for #c5c4aa: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac sits directly opposite #c5c4aa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #c5c4aa, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #c5c4aa: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson is paired with #c5c4aa in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green shows up next to #c5c4aa in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Eggplant shows up next to #c5c4aa in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green is paired with #c5c4aa in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Canopy, as the accent.
| #c5c4aa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.77:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.85:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c5c4aa 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.
#c5c4aa reads as warm, muted, light. 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 #c5c4aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/c5c4aa-bcbea2-4e99df-282d1f-f1ede9?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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