Color
#73a099
#73a099rgb(115, 160, 153)hsl(171, 19%, 54%)oklch(0.671 0.05 184.2)Colors that go with #73a099
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #73a099: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #73a099, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #73a099 in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Polaroid, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #73a099: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #73a099 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #73a099: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Open House and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #73a099, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #73a099 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #73a099
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #73a099 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.91:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.22:1 | 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 #73a099 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #73a099 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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