Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#cdc5ad
#cdc5ad
hex
#cdc5adrgb
rgb(205, 197, 173)hsl
hsl(45, 24%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.824 0.034 91.7)Closest name: Attic Linen (#ccbca9)Relative luminance 0.5593
Colors that go with #cdc5ad
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 #cdc5ad: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cdc5ad 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
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #cdc5ad: 4 real palettes, including Estate and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cdc5ad: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cdc5ad 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 #cdc5ad in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #cdc5ad: 4 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #cdc5ad in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #cdc5ad
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cdc5ad as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.72:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.19:1 | 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 #cdc5ad 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
#cdc5ad reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cdc5ad
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 #cdc5ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cdc5ad-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-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