Color
#74497e
#74497ergb(116, 73, 126)hsl(289, 27%, 39%)oklch(0.475 0.097 319.9)Colors that go with #74497e
Sea Green, Charcoal and Denim 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #74497e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #74497e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #74497e: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Fintech Trust put Midnight Blue beside #74497e, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #74497e in 6 real palettes, including Stripe's brand system and Console Light, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #74497e in 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Blush, as that palette's text colour.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #74497e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #74497e, as the surface under it.
Real palettes that use #74497e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74497e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.01:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 3:1 | 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 #74497e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #74497e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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