Alpine
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Color
#73a7ba
#73a7ba
hex
#73a7bargb
rgb(115, 167, 186)hsl
hsl(196, 34%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.699 0.062 222.8)Closest name: Blue Eye Samurai (#75aebd)Relative luminance 0.3483
Colors that go with #73a7ba
Charcoal, Peru 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 text near-black for #73a7ba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #73a7ba 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 #73a7ba in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and NBA's brand system, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #73a7ba in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #73a7ba: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #73a7ba's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #73a7ba in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Learning App, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #73a7ba: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #73a7ba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #73a7ba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.64:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.97:1 | 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 #73a7ba 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #73a7ba
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 #73a7ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/73a7ba-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-e9f1ef?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