Color

#748caa

#748caa
hex#748caa
rgbrgb(116, 140, 170)
hslhsl(213, 24%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.632 0.053 254.2)
Closest name: lightslategray (#778899)Relative luminance 0.2537

Colors that go with #748caa

Charcoal, Copper and Blush Pink 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aa9174

#74a7aa · #7774aa

#aa748c · #8caa74

Split-complementary

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#aa7774 · #a7aa74

#aa74a7 · #aa9174 · #74aa77

Contrast

#748caa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.46:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5d7798 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #465a72 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.66:1)
Aaon black
6.07:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8499b3 as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #748caa as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #748caa
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 #748caa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/748caa-9ca9c4-df584e-1f202d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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