Color
#74253b
#74253brgb(116, 37, 59)hsl(343, 52%, 30%)oklch(0.391 0.112 6.9)Colors that go with #74253b
Teal, Crimson and Taupe 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #74253b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #74253b in 5 real palettes, including M&M's's brand system and Lenovo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #74253b in 9 real palettes, including Bookshop and Cider, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #74253b: 3 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Heinz's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #74253b: 3 real palettes, including Nursery and Macaron, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped3 real palettes, including Bookshop and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #74253b, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #74253b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #74253b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #74253b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74253b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.14:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.07:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #74253b 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
#74253b reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #74253b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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