Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#cbc5ae
#cbc5ae
hex
#cbc5aergb
rgb(203, 197, 174)hsl
hsl(48, 22%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.822 0.032 95)Closest name: Bok Choy (#bccab3)Relative luminance 0.5569
Colors that go with #cbc5ae
Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet Blue 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 #cbc5ae: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cbc5ae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #cbc5ae in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #cbc5ae in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #cbc5ae in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #cbc5ae 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 #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #cbc5ae 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 #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #cbc5ae in 4 real palettes, including Allbirds's brand system and First Snow, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #cbc5ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cbc5ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.73:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.14:1 | 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 #cbc5ae 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
#cbc5ae reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cbc5ae
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 #cbc5ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cbc5ae-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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