Color

#a78c81

#a78c81
hex#a78c81
rgbrgb(167, 140, 129)
hslhsl(17, 18%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.662 0.037 43.4)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2856

Colors that go with #a78c81

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #a78c81

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#819ca7

#a78189 · #a79f81

#81a78c · #8c81a7

Split-complementary

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#81a79f · #8189a7

#89a781 · #819ca7 · #9f81a7

Contrast

#a78c81 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.13:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d6f62 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #695249 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.71:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ab9187 as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a78c81 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

#a78c81 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a78c81
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 #a78c81 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a78c81-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md