Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#cbbeb3
#cbbeb3
hex
#cbbeb3rgb
rgb(203, 190, 179)hsl
hsl(28, 19%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.809 0.021 62.8)Closest name: Warm Gray (#c9c0bb)Relative luminance 0.5278
Colors that go with #cbbeb3
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #cbbeb3 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #cbbeb3, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cbbeb3: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cbbeb3 in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #cbbeb3 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #cbbeb3: 4 real palettes, including Fitbit's brand system and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #cbbeb3 in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #cbbeb3 in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Canopy, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cbbeb3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cbbeb3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.82:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.56:1 | 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 #cbbeb3 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#cbbeb3 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cbbeb3
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 #cbbeb3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cbbeb3-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-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