Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#74473e
#74473e
hex
#74473ergb
rgb(116, 71, 62)hsl
hsl(10, 30%, 35%)oklch
oklch(0.448 0.064 32)Closest name: Brisket (#6e4534)Relative luminance 0.0857
Colors that go with #74473e
Teal, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #74473e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #74473e, as the surface under it.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #74473e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #74473e: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #74473e in 4 real palettes, including Console Light and Subaru's brand system, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #74473e in 4 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #74473e: 6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #74473e, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #74473e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74473e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.74:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.71:1 | 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 #74473e 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
Fonts for this mood
#74473e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #74473e
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 #74473e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/74473e-c4a79c-62cbaa-2d281f-f1e9ec?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