Color
#174dba
#174dbargb(23, 77, 186)hsl(220, 78%, 41%)oklch(0.458 0.181 262.2)Colors that go with #174dba
Crimson, Charcoal and Medium 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.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #174dba — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #174dba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #174dba in 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Indigo SaaS, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #174dba in 6 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Fintech Trust, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #174dba in 5 real palettes, including Strava's brand system and PlanetScale's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #174dba in 5 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Behance's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #174dba in 4 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Campus, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #174dba in 9 real palettes, including Loom's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #174dba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #174dba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.48:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.81:1 | 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 #174dba 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
#174dba 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 #174dba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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