Color

#748daa

#748daa
hex#748daa
rgbrgb(116, 141, 170)
hslhsl(212, 24%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.635 0.052 252.4)
Closest name: lightslategray (#778899)Relative luminance 0.2567

Colors that go with #748daa

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.

Real palettes that use #748daa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aa9174

#74a8aa · #7674aa

#aa748d · #8daa74

Split-complementary

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#aa7674 · #a8aa74

#aa74a8 · #aa9174 · #74aa76

Contrast

#748daa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.42:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5d7898 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #465a72 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.13:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #849ab3 as the text (7.25:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #748daa 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 #748daa
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 #748daa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/748daa-9caac4-df564e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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