Color
#74742f
#74742frgb(116, 116, 47)hsl(60, 42%, 32%)oklch(0.544 0.091 109.1)Colors that go with #74742f
Charcoal, Slate Blue and Blue 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 body-text near-black for #74742f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #74742f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #74742f, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #74742f, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #74742f: 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Wellness, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #74742f in 4 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #74742f: 6 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #74742f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #74742f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74742f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.9:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.28:1 | 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 #74742f 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 #74742f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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