Color

#a78b2f

#a78b2f
hex#a78b2f
rgbrgb(167, 139, 47)
hslhsl(46, 56%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.646 0.113 91.6)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2689

Colors that go with #a78b2f

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 #a78b2f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2f4ba7

#a74f2f · #87a72f

#2fa78b · #8b2fa7

Split-complementary

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#2f87a7 · #4f2fa7

#2fa74f · #2f4ba7 · #a72f87

Contrast

#a78b2f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.29:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b7427 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #67561d as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.38:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b39532 as the text (7.26:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a78b2f 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

#a78b2f reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a78b2f
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 #a78b2f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a78b2f-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md