Color
#74788b
#74788brgb(116, 120, 139)hsl(230, 9%, 50%)oklch(0.576 0.03 276)Colors that go with #74788b
Charcoal, Champagne and Cobalt 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #74788b without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #74788b, as that palette's text colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #74788b: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #74788b: 6 real palettes, including Atelier and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #74788b in 8 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #74788b: 12 real palettes, including Campus and Discover's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #74788b: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Honda's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #74788b in 6 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #74788b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74788b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.37:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.8:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #74788b 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
#74788b reads as muted, minimal. 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 #74788b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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