Color

#749eaf

#749eaf
hex#749eaf
rgbrgb(116, 158, 175)
hslhsl(197, 27%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.675 0.052 224.9)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3126

Colors that go with #749eaf

Charcoal, Peru and Amber 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 #749eaf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#af8574

#74afa2 · #7481af

#af749e · #9eaf74

Split-complementary

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#af7481 · #afa274

#a274af · #af8574 · #81af74

Contrast

#749eaf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #507a8b as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #3c5b68 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.25:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #749eaf as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #749eaf
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 #749eaf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/749eaf-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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