Ledger Dark
Open in tool →Gold on midnight is the private-banking cue; the mint accent keeps it from feeling old-money stuffy.
Color
#748ea4
#748ea4
hex
#748ea4rgb
rgb(116, 142, 164)hsl
hsl(208, 21%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.634 0.044 244.1)Closest name: Cavolo Nero (#72939e)Relative luminance 0.2574
Colors that go with #748ea4
Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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 for #748ea4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
complementaryshippedCopper sits directly opposite #748ea4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #748ea4 in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Diner, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #748ea4: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #748ea4, as the supporting colour.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Campus and Graphite put Orange beside #748ea4, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #748ea4: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #748ea4 in 4 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Confluent's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #748ea4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #748ea4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.42:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.15:1 | 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 #748ea4 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
Arctic
Open in tool →Navy type on white with an ice-blue accent: crisp and corporate without going grey.
Dusty Blue
Open in tool →Dusty blue and mist with a nude accent — the quiet wedding palette; nothing here competes with a photograph.
mcpConnect your agent — build around #748ea4
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #748ea4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/748ea4-9cadc4-df4e51-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md