Color

#a78f8b

#a78f8b
hex#a78f8b
rgbrgb(167, 143, 139)
hslhsl(9, 14%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.671 0.03 29.1)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2972

Colors that go with #a78f8b

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 #a78f8b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8ba3a7

#a78b95 · #a79d8b

#8ba78f · #8f8ba7

Split-complementary

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#8ba79d · #8b95a7

#95a78b · #8ba3a7 · #9d8ba7

Contrast

#a78f8b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c6e69 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #69534f as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.68:1)
Aaon black
6.94:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a9928e as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a78f8b 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

#a78f8b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a78f8b
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 #a78f8b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a78f8b-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md