Color

#b78d4e

#b78d4e
hex#b78d4e
rgbrgb(183, 141, 78)
hslhsl(36, 42%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.67 0.096 76)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2967

Colors that go with #b78d4e

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower Blue 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 #b78d4e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4e78b7

#b7584e · #acb74e

#4eb78d · #8d4eb7

Split-complementary

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#4eacb7 · #584eb7

#4eb758 · #4e78b7 · #b74eac

Contrast

#b78d4e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.03:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #916f3b as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #6d532c as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.67:1)
Aaon black
6.93:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b88f51 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #b78d4e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#b78d4e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #b78d4e
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 #b78d4e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/b78d4e-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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