Color
#74afa5
#74afa5rgb(116, 175, 165)hsl(170, 27%, 57%)oklch(0.711 0.063 182.7)Colors that go with #74afa5
Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood 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 #74afa5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Unity's brand system put Blue beside #74afa5, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #74afa5 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #74afa5, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #74afa5: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #74afa5 in 4 real palettes, including Diner and Riot Games's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #74afa5 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
split-complementshippedDark Salmon is a split-complement of #74afa5: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #74afa5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74afa5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.49:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.42:1 | 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 #74afa5 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 #74afa5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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