Color
#74bea0
#74bea0rgb(116, 190, 160)hsl(156, 36%, 60%)oklch(0.744 0.087 166.3)Colors that go with #74bea0
Charcoal, Blue and Champagne 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 #74bea0: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #74bea0, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #74bea0, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #74bea0: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #74bea0 in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and DuckDuckGo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #74bea0 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #74bea0 in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Canopy, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryLilac sits directly opposite #74bea0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #74bea0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74bea0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.18:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.62:1 | 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 #74bea0 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 #74bea0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/74bea0-a2beb6-d459c6-1f2d2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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