Color

#a78a06

#a78a06
hex#a78a06
rgbrgb(167, 138, 6)
hslhsl(49, 93%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.642 0.13 93.8)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2641

Colors that go with #a78a06

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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.

Real palettes that use #a78a06

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0624a7

#a73906 · #74a706

#06a78a · #8a06a7

Split-complementary

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#0674a7 · #3906a7

#06a739 · #0624a7 · #a70674

Contrast

#a78a06 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.34:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8a7105 as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #675504 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.28:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b69607 as the text (7.35:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a78a06 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#a78a06 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a78a06
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a78a06 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a78a06-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md