Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#d1beb8
#d1beb8
hex
#d1beb8rgb
rgb(209, 190, 184)hsl
hsl(14, 21%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.816 0.023 38.3)Closest name: Warm Gray (#c9c0bb)Relative luminance 0.5384
Colors that go with #d1beb8
Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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 #d1beb8 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #d1beb8: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #d1beb8 in 5 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 #d1beb8 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #d1beb8: 4 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #d1beb8 in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #d1beb8 in 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped10 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Casper Sleep's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #d1beb8, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #d1beb8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d1beb8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.78:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.77:1 | 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 #d1beb8 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#d1beb8 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d1beb8
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 #d1beb8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d1beb8-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?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