Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Color
#d78e28
#d78e28
hex
#d78e28rgb
rgb(215, 142, 40)hsl
hsl(35, 69%, 50%)oklch
oklch(0.705 0.14 69.6)Closest name: peru (#cd853f)Relative luminance 0.3395
Colors that go with #d78e28
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Amber 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 #d78e28: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #d78e28 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #d78e28 in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Maple, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #d78e28, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #d78e28 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #d78e28: 5 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #d78e28, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #d78e28 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Cider, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #d78e28
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #d78e28 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.7:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.79:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #d78e28 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
#d78e28 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #d78e28
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 #d78e28 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/d78e28-c4b89c-62c0cb-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