caramel vs sepia

caramel

adj
  • Of a yellow-brown color. 

noun
  • A yellow-brown color, like that of caramel. 

  • A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky. 

  • A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection. 

sepia

adj
  • Of a dark reddish-brown colour. 

noun
  • A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph. 

  • A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. 

  • A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour. 

How often have the words caramel and sepia occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )