Color
#a78f16
#a78f16rgb(167, 143, 22)hsl(50, 77%, 37%)oklch(0.653 0.129 96.5)Colors that go with #a78f16
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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #a78f16 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #a78f16, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a78f16: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a78f16 in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
split-complementshippedDodger Blue is a split-complement of #a78f16: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a78f16 in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #a78f16: 4 real palettes, including Cider and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Sienna #a0522d
shippedSienna shows up next to #a78f16 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a78f16
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a78f16 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.19:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.58:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a78f16 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
#a78f16 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a78f16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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