Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#cfc1aa
#cfc1aa
hex
#cfc1aargb
rgb(207, 193, 170)hsl
hsl(37, 28%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.816 0.035 80.3)Closest name: Attic Linen (#ccbca9)Relative luminance 0.5431
Colors that go with #cfc1aa
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 #cfc1aa: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cfc1aa 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 #cfc1aa: 4 real palettes, including Estate and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #cfc1aa, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cfc1aa: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cfc1aa in 6 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #cfc1aa in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #cfc1aa in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #cfc1aa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cfc1aa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.77:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.86:1 | 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 #cfc1aa 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
#cfc1aa reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cfc1aa
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 #cfc1aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cfc1aa-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?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