Color
#74543e
#74543ergb(116, 84, 62)hsl(24, 30%, 35%)oklch(0.474 0.054 55.5)Colors that go with #74543e
Champagne, Copper and Firebrick 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #74543e, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #74543e: 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #74543e: 4 real palettes, including Trader Joe's's brand system and Newsprint, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Bakery and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #74543e, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #74543e in 4 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Console Light, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #74543e in 5 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #74543e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #74543e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #74543e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74543e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.82:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.08:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #74543e as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#74543e reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #74543e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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