Color
#78545e
#78545ergb(120, 84, 94)hsl(343, 18%, 40%)oklch(0.488 0.05 0.9)Colors that go with #78545e
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 #78545e 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 BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #78545e.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #78545e: 6 real palettes, including Bakery and Desert Road, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #78545e in 4 real palettes, including Console Light and Undergrowth, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Bakery and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #78545e, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #78545e in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #78545e in 5 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Gallery, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #78545e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #78545e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78545e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.5:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.23:1 | 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 #78545e 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
#78545e reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #78545e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/78545e-c49ca3-62cb7b-2d211f-f1e9ef?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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