Color

#a78f52

#a78f52
hex#a78f52
rgbrgb(167, 143, 82)
hslhsl(43, 34%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.658 0.085 88.5)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2847

Colors that go with #a78f52

Burlywood, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #a78f52

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#526ba7

#a76552 · #95a752

#52a78f · #8f52a7

Split-complementary

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#5295a7 · #6552a7

#52a765 · #526ba7 · #a75295

Contrast

#a78f52 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.14:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #857242 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #635531 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.69:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9458 as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a78f52 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a78f52 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a78f52
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 #a78f52 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a78f52-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md