Wellness
Open in tool →Sage and terracotta feel natural and calm — the anti-hospital palette for wellbeing brands.
Color
#a78f72
#a78f72
hex
#a78f72rgb
rgb(167, 143, 114)hsl
hsl(33, 23%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.664 0.05 72.1)Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2908
Colors that go with #a78f72
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a78f72: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #a78f72 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #a78f72, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a78f72 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #a78f72, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a78f72 in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a78f72: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Spline's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #a78f72 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Mid-Century, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a78f72
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a78f72 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.08:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.82:1 | 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 #a78f72 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#a78f72 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a78f72
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a78f72 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a78f72-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md