Color

#74bdcd

#74bdcd
hex#74bdcd
rgbrgb(116, 189, 205)
hslhsl(191, 47%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.756 0.076 213.2)
Closest name: Crystal Lake (#88b5c4)Relative luminance 0.4452

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cd8574

#74cdb1 · #7490cd

#cd74bd · #bdcd74

Split-complementary

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#cd7490 · #cdb174

#b174cd · #cd8574 · #90cd74

Contrast

#74bdcd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #337e8e as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #27606d as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #74bdcd 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

#74bdcd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

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

tool url/palettes/new/74bdcd-a2b6be-df4e7a-1f252d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md