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
#7e503a
#7e503a
hex
#7e503argb
rgb(126, 80, 58)hsl
hsl(19, 37%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.478 0.071 46.1)Closest name: Brownstone (#785441)Relative luminance 0.1048
Colors that go with #7e503a
Teal, Champagne and Royal Blue 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 #7e503a 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 #7e503a, as the surface under it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #7e503a in 4 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Console Light, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #7e503a 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 #7e503a: 6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #7e503a, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #7e503a in 21 real palettes, including Darkroom and Domino's's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #7e503a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #7e503a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #7e503a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.78:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.1:1 | 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 #7e503a 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
#7e503a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #7e503a
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 #7e503a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/7e503a-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-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