Color
#74281b
#74281brgb(116, 40, 27)hsl(9, 62%, 28%)oklch(0.388 0.11 32)Colors that go with #74281b
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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #74281b 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 #74281b in 4 real palettes, including M&M's's brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #74281b: 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Blush and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #74281b, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #74281b: 3 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #74281b: 3 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Heinz's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #74281b: 3 real palettes, including Nursery and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #74281b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #74281b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74281b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.18:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.06:1 | 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 #74281b 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
#74281b reads as warm, vivid, dark. 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 #74281b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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