Named color

Bureaucracy

#746c8f

hex#746c8f

rgbrgb(116, 108, 143)

hslhsl(254, 14%, 49%)

oklchoklch(0.552 0.054 295)

Relative luminance 0.1642

Cool Muted

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Bureaucracy on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

81799a 8f88a5 9c96b0 aaa5bb b8b3c6 c3bfcf d0ceda dedce5 ecebf0 faf9fb

Shades — toward black

6a6383 5e5874 554f69 49445a 403b4e 343040 2a2734 1f1d26 15141a 09090c

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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746c8f 868e6b

#868e6b

Analogous

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746c8f 6b758e 856b8e

#6b758e · #856b8e

Triadic

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746c8f 8e746b 6b8e74

#8e746b · #6b8e74

Split-complementary

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746c8f 8e856b 758e6b

#8e856b · #758e6b

Tetradic

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746c8f 8e6b75 868e6b 6b8e85

#8e6b75 · #868e6b · #6b8e85

Contrast

Bureaucracy as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	4.9:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #5a536e as the text (7.25:1)
Aaon black	4.28:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #797194 as the text (4.6:1) AAA: use #9a93ae as the text (7.16:1) AA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Bureaucracy as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around Bureaucracy

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 #746c8f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/746c8f-aa9cc4-dfbb4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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