Color

#74241b

#74241b
hex#74241b
rgbrgb(116, 36, 27)
hslhsl(6, 62%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.383 0.114 29.7)
Closest name: Blackened Sun (#77150e)Relative luminance 0.0505

Colors that go with #74241b

Teal, Crimson and Sage Green 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 #74241b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1b6b74

#741b3f · #74501b

#1b7424 · #241b74

Split-complementary

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#1b7450 · #1b3f74

#3f741b · #1b6b74 · #501b74

Contrast

#74241b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.44:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.01:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d04435 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #dd796e as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #74241b as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#74241b reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #74241b
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 #74241b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/74241b-c4a59c-62cba3-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md