Glacier
Open in tool →Three blues from ice to deep water on a pale surface — a monochromatic winter set with real depth.
Color
#147bb3
#147bb3
hex
#147bb3rgb
rgb(20, 123, 179)hsl
hsl(201, 80%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.556 0.122 240.2)Closest name: Haddock’s Sweater (#277aba)Relative luminance 0.1757
Colors that go with #147bb3
Charcoal, Crimson and Sienna 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 #147bb3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
split-complementshippedCrimson is a split-complement of #147bb3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #147bb3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #147bb3 in 9 real palettes, including Wired's brand system and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped10 real palettes, including Activision's brand system and Pixar's brand system put Blue beside #147bb3, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #147bb3: 8 real palettes, including Glacier and Hershey's's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #147bb3: 5 real palettes, including Deep Water and Astro's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #147bb3: 7 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Apple's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #147bb3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #147bb3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.65:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.51:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #147bb3 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#147bb3 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #147bb3
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #147bb3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/147bb3-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md