Saffron
Open in tool →Saffron and clove with a teal counterpoint — spice-market warmth, balanced so it doesn't go orange everywhere.
Color
#78281c
#78281c
hex
#78281crgb
rgb(120, 40, 28)hsl
hsl(8, 62%, 29%)oklch
oklch(0.396 0.114 31.2)Closest name: Blackened Sun (#77150e)Relative luminance 0.0559
Colors that go with #78281c
Teal, Steel 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #78281c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #78281c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #78281c, as the text colour against it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #78281c: 3 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #78281c in 3 real palettes, including M&M's's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #78281c: 3 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Heinz's brand system, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #78281c: 3 real palettes, including Darkroom and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #78281c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #78281c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78281c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.91:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.12:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #78281c 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
#78281c reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #78281c
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 #78281c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/78281c-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?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