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Color
#74a4be
#74a4be
hex
#74a4bergb
rgb(116, 164, 190)hsl
hsl(201, 36%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.694 0.064 232.6)Closest name: Blue Eye Samurai (#75aebd)Relative luminance 0.3398
Colors that go with #74a4be
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #74a4be: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #74a4be on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #74a4be in 5 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #74a4be in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #74a4be: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #74a4be: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #74a4be: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Patreon's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped10 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #74a4be, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #74a4be
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74a4be as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.69:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.8:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #74a4be 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
Fonts for this mood
#74a4be reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #74a4be
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 #74a4be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/74a4be-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?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