Color
#174b87
#174b87rgb(23, 75, 135)hsl(212, 71%, 31%)oklch(0.413 0.114 254.8)Colors that go with #174b87
Crimson, Blue and Cornflower 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.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #174b87 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Tesco's brand system put Blue beside #174b87, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #174b87: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Gopro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #174b87: 4 real palettes, including Nintendo's brand system and MLB's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped20 real palettes, including First Snow and Microsoft's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #174b87, as that palette's text colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #174b87 in 4 real palettes, including NASA's brand system and Tide's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #174b87: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Glacier, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #174b87: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #174b87
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #174b87 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.78:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.39:1 | 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 #174b87 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
#174b87 reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #174b87 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/174b87-9caac4-df564e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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