Color

#172e44

#172e44
hex#172e44
rgbrgb(23, 46, 68)
hslhsl(209, 49%, 18%)
oklchoklch(0.294 0.05 248.9)
Closest name: Midnight Ocean (#0f2d4d)Relative luminance 0.0255

Colors that go with #172e44

Dark Olive Green, Sienna and Slate 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 #172e44

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#442d17

#174444 · #171844

#44172f · #2f4417

Split-complementary

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#441718 · #444417

#441744 · #442d17 · #184417

Contrast

#172e44 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
13.9:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3d7ab3 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #679bcb as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #949494 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #172e44 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

#172e44 reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #172e44
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 #172e44 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/172e44-9cacc4-df4e4e-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md