Color

#742a36

#742a36
hex#742a36
rgbrgb(116, 42, 54)
hslhsl(350, 47%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.396 0.104 13.4)
Closest name: Arcane Red (#6a2f2f)Relative luminance 0.0564

Colors that go with #742a36

Teal, Crimson and Blush Pink 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 #742a36

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2a7468

#742a5b · #74432a

#36742a · #2a3674

Split-complementary

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#2a7443 · #2a5b74

#5b742a · #2a7468 · #432a74

Contrast

#742a36 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.87:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #bf4f62 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #d1808d as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #742a36 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

#742a36 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #742a36
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 #742a36 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/742a36-c49c9e-62cb87-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md