Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#ccc7b3
#ccc7b3
hex
#ccc7b3rgb
rgb(204, 199, 179)hsl
hsl(48, 20%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.828 0.028 95.4)Closest name: Argento (#cecac3)Relative luminance 0.5694
Colors that go with #ccc7b3
Charcoal, Crimson and Dark Olive Green 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 #ccc7b3 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ccc7b3 in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ccc7b3 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #ccc7b3: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #ccc7b3 in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ccc7b3 in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Light Coral #f08080
shippedDesigners have shipped Light Coral with #ccc7b3: 4 real palettes, including Blush and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Allbirds's brand system and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #ccc7b3, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ccc7b3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ccc7b3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.7:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.39:1 | 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 #ccc7b3 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
#ccc7b3 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ccc7b3
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 #ccc7b3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ccc7b3-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