Color

#172fb5

#172fb5
hex#172fb5
rgbrgb(23, 47, 181)
hslhsl(231, 77%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.399 0.209 266.6)
Closest name: Blue Hour (#0034ab)Relative luminance 0.0555

Colors that go with #172fb5

Charcoal, Steel Blue and 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#b59d17

#177eb5 · #4e17b5

#b5172f · #2fb517

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#b54e17 · #7eb517

#b5177e · #b59d17 · #17b54e

Contrast

#172fb5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.95:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #536ae9 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #8191ef as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #172fb5 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

#172fb5 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #172fb5
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 #172fb5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/172fb5-9c9ec4-df834e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md