Color
#78487a
#78487argb(120, 72, 122)hsl(298, 26%, 38%)oklch(0.476 0.097 325.5)Colors that go with #78487a
Sea Green, Charcoal and Royal 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #78487a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #78487a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #78487a in 6 real palettes, including Stripe's brand system and Console Light, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #78487a in 9 real palettes, including Blush and Dusk, as that palette's text colour.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #78487a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #78487a, as the surface under it.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #78487a: 3 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #78487a in 3 real palettes, including Console Light and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #78487a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78487a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.98:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.01:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #78487a as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #78487a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/78487a-c19fbe-98cb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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