Color
#74637e
#74637ergb(116, 99, 126)hsl(278, 12%, 44%)oklch(0.526 0.046 312.9)Colors that go with #74637e
Charcoal, Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #74637e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #74637e.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #74637e: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #74637e in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Marvel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #74637e: 5 real palettes, including Campus and HP's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #74637e in 5 real palettes, including Open House and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #74637e in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #74637e 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 #74637e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74637e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.49:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.83:1 | 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 #74637e 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 #74637e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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