Color

#a78a2a

#a78a2a
hex#a78a2a
rgbrgb(167, 138, 42)
hslhsl(46, 60%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.643 0.116 91.5)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2656

Colors that go with #a78a2a

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 #a78a2a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2a47a7

#a74b2a · #86a72a

#2aa78a · #8a2aa7

Split-complementary

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#2a86a7 · #4b2aa7

#2aa74b · #2a47a7 · #a72a86

Contrast

#a78a2a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.33:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b7223 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #66541a as the text (7.37:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.55:1)
Aaon black
6.31:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b4942d as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a78a2a 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

#a78a2a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a78a2a
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 #a78a2a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a78a2a-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md