Color
#74c8ad
#74c8adrgb(116, 200, 173)hsl(161, 43%, 62%)oklch(0.772 0.092 171.1)Colors that go with #74c8ad
Charcoal, Blue and Crimson 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 #74c8ad: 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 Uber's brand system put Blue beside #74c8ad, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #74c8ad in 5 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Riot Games's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #74c8ad in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Neon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice put Mustard Yellow beside #74c8ad, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped11 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #74c8ad, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #74c8ad in 33 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Crayon Box, as the text colour against it.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryLilac sits directly opposite #74c8ad 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 #74c8ad
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #74c8ad as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.98:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.61:1 | 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 #74c8ad 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 #74c8ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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