Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#cbc0a9
#cbc0a9
hex
#cbc0a9rgb
rgb(203, 192, 169)hsl
hsl(41, 25%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.811 0.034 85.5)Closest name: Attic Linen (#ccbca9)Relative luminance 0.5326
Colors that go with #cbc0a9
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #cbc0a9: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cbc0a9 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #cbc0a9, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cbc0a9: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cbc0a9 in 5 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 #cbc0a9 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #cbc0a9 in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #cbc0a9 in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Canopy, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cbc0a9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cbc0a9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.65:1 | 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 #cbc0a9 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
#cbc0a9 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cbc0a9
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 #cbc0a9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cbc0a9-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?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