Color
#74aa88
#74aa88rgb(116, 170, 136)hsl(142, 24%, 56%)oklch(0.691 0.076 156.2)Colors that go with #74aa88
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue 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 #74aa88: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #74aa88 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #74aa88, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #74aa88 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Coastal, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #74aa88: 8 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #74aa88 in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #74aa88: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #74aa88 in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #74aa88
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74aa88 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.68:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.85:1 | 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 #74aa88 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #74aa88 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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