Color
#78540d
#78540drgb(120, 84, 13)hsl(40, 80%, 26%)oklch(0.473 0.093 78.1)Colors that go with #78540d
Royal Blue, Champagne and Firebrick 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #78540d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #78540d, as the surface under it.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #78540d: 4 real palettes, including Trader Joe's's brand system and Chipotle's brand system, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #78540d 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 #78540d: 5 real palettes, including Homestead and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Clay & Linen put Slate Gray beside #78540d, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #78540d in 20 real palettes, including Domino's's brand system and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #78540d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #78540d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78540d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.83:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.07:1 | 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 #78540d as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#78540d reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #78540d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/78540d-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?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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