Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#cbc2afrgb(203, 194, 175)hsl(41, 21%, 74%)oklch(0.816 0.028 85.7)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 is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #cbc2af without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne is paired with #cbc2af in 5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper is paired with #cbc2af in 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green is paired with #cbc2af in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant is paired with #cbc2af in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green is paired with #cbc2af in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Pine & Birch, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue is paired with #cbc2af in 6 real palettes, including First Snow and Allbirds's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru is paired with #cbc2af in 5 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
| #cbc2af as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.77:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.88:1 | 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 #cbc2af 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.
#cbc2af 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 #cbc2af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/cbc2af-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.
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