Color

#74685d

#74685d
hex#74685d
rgbrgb(116, 104, 93)
hslhsl(29, 11%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.525 0.023 64.8)
Closest name: Archaeology (#6e6a5e)Relative luminance 0.144

Colors that go with #74685d

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.

Real palettes that use #74685d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5d6974

#745d5d · #74745d

#5d7468 · #685d74

Split-complementary

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#5d7474 · #5d5d74

#5d745d · #5d6974 · #745d74

Contrast

#74685d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.41:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #60564d as the text (7.15:1)
Aaon black
3.88:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7f7266 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #a09488 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #74685d as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#74685d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #74685d
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 #74685d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/74685d-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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