Color

#74b2ec

#74b2ec
hex#74b2ec
rgbrgb(116, 178, 236)
hslhsl(209, 76%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.744 0.106 247.8)
Closest name: Birdie Num Num (#89acda)Relative luminance 0.4161

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ecae74

#74ecea · #7476ec

#ec74b2 · #b2ec74

Split-complementary

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#ec7476 · #ecea74

#ea74ec · #ecae74 · #76ec74

Contrast

#74b2ec as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #1c78ce as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #155999 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #74b2ec as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#74b2ec reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #74b2ec
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #74b2ec and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/74b2ec-9cacc4-df4e4e-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md