Color

#748eaa

#748eaa
hex#748eaa
rgbrgb(116, 142, 170)
hslhsl(211, 24%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.637 0.052 250.5)
Closest name: lightslategray (#778899)Relative luminance 0.2596

Colors that go with #748eaa

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.

Real palettes that use #748eaa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aa9074

#74a9aa · #7574aa

#aa748e · #8eaa74

Split-complementary

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#aa7574 · #a9aa74

#aa74a9 · #aa9074 · #74aa75

Contrast

#748eaa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.39:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5d7998 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #465b72 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.19:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8198b1 as the text (7.06:1)

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

tool url/palettes/new/748eaa-9cabc4-df534e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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