Color
#170042
#170042rgb(23, 0, 66)hsl(261, 100%, 13%)oklch(0.194 0.111 288.2)Colors that go with #170042
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Sea Green 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 #170042: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #170042's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #170042 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #170042 in 12 real palettes, including Southwest Airlines's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped13 real palettes, including Penpot's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #170042, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #170042 in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Twitch's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #170042: 6 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Arctic, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Allbirds's brand system and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #170042, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #170042
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #170042 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.83:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.12:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #170042 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
#170042 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #170042 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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