Magazine Ochre
Open in tool →Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.
Color
#74583e
#74583e
hex
#74583ergb
rgb(116, 88, 62)hsl
hsl(29, 30%, 35%)oklch
oklch(0.483 0.054 63.9)Closest name: Baby Bear (#6f5944)Relative luminance 0.1104
Colors that go with #74583e
Champagne, Charcoal and Copper 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 BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #74583e.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #74583e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #74583e: 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #74583e: 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 #74583e, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #74583e in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #74583e in 5 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #74583e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #74583e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74583e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.55:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.21:1 | 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 #74583e as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#74583e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #74583e
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 #74583e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/74583e-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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