Dusk Gradient
Open in tool →Orange and peach on indigo-black with a violet — the last five minutes of a sunset, as a dark mode.
Color
#170e34
#170e34
hex
#170e34rgb
rgb(23, 14, 52)hsl
hsl(254, 58%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.202 0.071 289.4)Closest name: Midnight Monarch (#1c0f33)Relative luminance 0.0074
Colors that go with #170e34
Charcoal, Denim 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 #170e34: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
analogousshippedDenim is #170e34's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #170e34: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna #a0522d
split-complementshippedSienna is a split-complement of #170e34: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #170e34 — 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 #170e34 in 15 real palettes, including Blueprint and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Penpot's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #170e34, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #170e34 in 10 real palettes, including Gemstone and Yahoo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #170e34
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #170e34 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.28:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.15:1 | 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 #170e34 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#170e34 reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #170e34
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 #170e34 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/170e34-aa9cc4-dfbb4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?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