Color

#74b4ec

#74b4ec
hex#74b4ec
rgbrgb(116, 180, 236)
hslhsl(208, 76%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.749 0.105 246.2)
Closest name: Electric Eel (#88bbee)Relative luminance 0.4241

Tints & shades

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Harmonies

Complementary

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#ecac74

#74ece8 · #7478ec

#ec74b4 · #b4ec74

Split-complementary

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#ec7478 · #ece874

#e874ec · #ecac74 · #78ec74

Contrast

#74b4ec as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.21:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #1c79ca as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #155b99 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
9.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #74b4ec 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

#74b4ec reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #74b4ec
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 #74b4ec and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/74b4ec-9cadc4-df4e51-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md