Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
Color
#78b579
#78b579
hex
#78b579rgb
rgb(120, 181, 121)hsl
hsl(121, 29%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.716 0.107 144.7)Closest name: Bud Green (#79b465)Relative luminance 0.3842
Colors that go with #78b579
Charcoal, Blue and Champagne 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 #78b579: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Minecraft's brand system put Blue beside #78b579, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #78b579, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #78b579: 5 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #78b579 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #78b579 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
triadicshippedDark Salmon completes a triad with #78b579 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #78b579: 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #78b579
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78b579 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.68:1 | 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 #78b579 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 #78b579
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 #78b579 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/78b579-a2bea6-9b4edf-1f2d26-edf1e9?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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