Color
#78aba0
#78aba0rgb(120, 171, 160)hsl(167, 23%, 57%)oklch(0.702 0.057 179.7)Colors that go with #78aba0
Charcoal, Blue 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 #78aba0: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #78aba0, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #78aba0 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #78aba0, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #78aba0: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #78aba0 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #78aba0: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #78aba0 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #78aba0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78aba0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.13:1 | 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 #78aba0 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 #78aba0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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