Color

#74494e

#74494e
hex#74494e
rgbrgb(116, 73, 78)
hslhsl(353, 23%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.456 0.059 12.1)
Closest name: Bigfoot (#715145)Relative luminance 0.0903

Colors that go with #74494e

Charcoal, Teal and Champagne 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 #74494e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#49746f

#744963 · #745949

#4e7449 · #494e74

Split-complementary

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#497459 · #496374

#637449 · #49746f · #594974

Contrast

#74494e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.48:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f656c as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #b68b90 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #74494e 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

#74494e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #74494e
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 #74494e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/74494e-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md