Color
#78a040
#78a040rgb(120, 160, 64)hsl(85, 43%, 44%)oklch(0.656 0.133 128.6)Colors that go with #78a040
Charcoal, Blue and Crimson 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 body-text near-black for #78a040: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Spotify's brand system and Unity's brand system put Blue beside #78a040, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #78a040 in 4 real palettes, including DuckDuckGo's brand system and Diner, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #78a040 in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #78a040: 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #78a040 in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Telehealth and Fintech Trust put Midnight Blue beside #78a040, as the text colour against it.
Medium Orchid #ba55d3
complementaryMedium Orchid sits directly opposite #78a040 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 #78a040
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78a040 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.04:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.9:1 | 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 #78a040 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 #78a040 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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