Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#7b5242
#7b5242
hex
#7b5242rgb
rgb(123, 82, 66)hsl
hsl(17, 30%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.48 0.061 42.1)Closest name: Brownstone (#785441)Relative luminance 0.1064
Colors that go with #7b5242
Teal, Champagne and Copper 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #7b5242 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #7b5242, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #7b5242: 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #7b5242 in 4 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Console Light, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #7b5242 in 5 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #7b5242: 8 real palettes, including Darkroom and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
shippedSandy Brown is paired with #7b5242 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Ubereats's brand system, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #7b5242: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #7b5242
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #7b5242 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.71:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.13:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #7b5242 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
Fonts for this mood
#7b5242 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #7b5242
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 #7b5242 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/7b5242-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?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