Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#78493a
#78493a
hex
#78493argb
rgb(120, 73, 58)hsl
hsl(15, 35%, 35%)oklch
oklch(0.456 0.069 38.5)Closest name: Bison (#6e4f3a)Relative luminance 0.0906
Colors that go with #78493a
Teal, Champagne and Copper 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 #78493a 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 Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #78493a, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #78493a: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #78493a in 4 real palettes, including Console Light and Subaru's brand system, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #78493a in 4 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #78493a: 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #78493a, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #78493a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #78493a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78493a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.47:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.81:1 | 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 #78493a 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
#78493a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #78493a
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 #78493a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/78493a-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?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