Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#cec2ba
#cec2ba
hex
#cec2bargb
rgb(206, 194, 186)hsl
hsl(24, 17%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.822 0.018 56.1)Closest name: Warm Gray (#c9c0bb)Relative luminance 0.5525
Colors that go with #cec2ba
Charcoal, Copper and Eggplant 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 #cec2ba without the hard edge of pure #000.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #cec2ba in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #cec2ba in 4 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 #cec2ba in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #cec2ba in 7 real palettes, including First Snow and Lavender Milk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #cec2ba in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #cec2ba in 7 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Stone, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #cec2ba in 11 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Graphite Mono, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #cec2ba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cec2ba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.74:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.05:1 | 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 #cec2ba 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
#cec2ba reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cec2ba
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 #cec2ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cec2ba-c4b19c-62cbc2-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?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