Campus
Open in tool →Institutional blue with a highlighter-amber accent — trustworthy for parents, lively enough for students.
Color
#174cde
#174cde
hex
#174cdergb
rgb(23, 76, 222)hsl
hsl(224, 81%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.489 0.228 264.1)Closest name: C64 Blue (#003aff)Relative luminance 0.1062
Colors that go with #174cde
Charcoal, Amber 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #174cde: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #174cde in 6 real palettes, including Walmart's brand system and NBA's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #174cde in 9 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Qualcomm's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #174cde in 13 real palettes, including Behance's brand system and Chase's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #174cde in 4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #174cde in 9 real palettes, including Coursera's brand system and HashiCorp's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
shippedLight Sky Blue is paired with #174cde in 4 real palettes, including 1password's brand system and Telehealth, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #174cde on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #174cde
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #174cde as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.72:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.12:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #174cde as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Peacock
Open in tool →Teal, cobalt and magenta at full chroma on white — jewel tones in daylight; the trick is a near-black text with a blue cast.
Fonts for this mood
#174cde reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #174cde
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 #174cde and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/174cde-9ca2c4-df724e-221f2d-e9eff1?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