Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Color
#d6bea8
#d6bea8
hex
#d6bea8rgb
rgb(214, 190, 168)hsl
hsl(29, 36%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.816 0.041 64.7)Closest name: Attic Linen (#ccbca9)Relative luminance 0.5395
Colors that go with #d6bea8
Charcoal, Sky Blue 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 #d6bea8: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #d6bea8 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 #d6bea8: 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 #d6bea8, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #d6bea8: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #d6bea8 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 #d6bea8 in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Undergrowth, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #d6bea8: 4 real palettes, including Fitbit's brand system and Victoria's Secret's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #d6bea8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d6bea8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.78:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.79:1 | 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 #d6bea8 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#d6bea8 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d6bea8
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 #d6bea8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d6bea8-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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