Color

#73a09e

#73a09e
hex#73a09e
rgbrgb(115, 160, 158)
hslhsl(177, 19%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.673 0.049 192.6)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.3126

Colors that go with #73a09e

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 #73a09e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a07376

#73a087 · #738ca0

#9e73a0 · #a09e73

Split-complementary

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#a0738c · #a08773

#8773a0 · #a07376 · #8ca073

Contrast

#73a09e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #557c7a as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #405e5d as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.25:1passpasspassPasses 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 #73a09e as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #73a09e
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 #73a09e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/73a09e-a2bcbe-d4599b-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md