Color

#74a4a3

#74a4a3
hex#74a4a3
rgbrgb(116, 164, 163)
hslhsl(179, 21%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.051 194.4)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.3291

Colors that go with #74a4a3

Charcoal, Burlywood and Copper 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 #74a4a3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a47475

#74a48b · #748da4

#a474a4 · #a4a474

Split-complementary

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#a4748d · #a48b74

#8b74a4 · #a47475 · #8da474

Contrast

#74a4a3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #517b7b as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #3c5d5c as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.58:1passpasspassPasses 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 #74a4a3 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 #74a4a3
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 #74a4a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/74a4a3-a2bbbe-d45996-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md