Color
#78977e
#78977ergb(120, 151, 126)hsl(132, 13%, 53%)oklch(0.646 0.051 150.5)Colors that go with #78977e
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #78977e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #78977e, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #78977e in 5 real palettes, including Kiln and Coastal, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #78977e, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #78977e: 7 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Atelier, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #78977e in 5 real palettes, including Diner and Five Guys's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #78977e in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Oatmeal, as the accent.
Orchid #da70d6
complementaryOrchid sits directly opposite #78977e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #78977e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78977e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.22:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.53:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #78977e 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 #78977e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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