Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#d5bdae
#d5bdae
hex
#d5bdaergb
rgb(213, 189, 174)hsl
hsl(23, 32%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.815 0.034 54.1)Closest name: Attic Linen (#ccbca9)Relative luminance 0.536
Colors that go with #d5bdae
Charcoal, Sky Blue and Champagne 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 #d5bdae: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #d5bdae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #d5bdae, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #d5bdae: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #d5bdae in 4 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 #d5bdae in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #d5bdae in 5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #d5bdae in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Canopy, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #d5bdae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d5bdae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.79:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.72:1 | 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 #d5bdae as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#d5bdae reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d5bdae
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 #d5bdae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d5bdae-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-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