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Color

#170ce9

#170ce9
hex#170ce9
rgbrgb(23, 12, 233)
hslhsl(243, 90%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.431 0.286 266.3)
Closest name: Burning Ultrablue (#150aec)Relative luminance 0.0633
CoolVividTechnicalModern
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Colors that go with #170ce9

Charcoal, Crimson and Cobalt Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #170ce9

Activision· brandAlaska Airlines· brandBBC· brandBinance· brand

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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170ce9dee90c

#dee90c

Analogous

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170ce90c6fe9850ce9

#0c6fe9 · #850ce9

Triadic

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170ce9e9170c0ce917

#e9170c · #0ce917

Split-complementary

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170ce9e9850c6fe90c

#e9850c · #6fe90c

Tetradic

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170ce9e90c6fdee90c0ce985

#e90c6f · #dee90c · #0ce985

Contrast

#170ce9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.27:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #675ff7 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #908bf9 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #170ce9 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#170ce9 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →
mcpConnect your agent — build around #170ce9
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

›analyze #170ce9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/170ce9-a39cc4-dfa04e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md