Alpine
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Color
#78a3ba
#78a3ba
hex
#78a3bargb
rgb(120, 163, 186)hsl
hsl(201, 32%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.693 0.057 232)Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3373
Colors that go with #78a3ba
Charcoal, Peru and Amber 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 #78a3ba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #78a3ba on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #78a3ba in 5 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #78a3ba in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #78a3ba: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #78a3ba: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #78a3ba: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Patreon's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped10 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #78a3ba, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #78a3ba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78a3ba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.71:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.75:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #78a3ba 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #78a3ba
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 #78a3ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/78a3ba-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?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