Color

#174e73

#174e73
hex#174e73
rgbrgb(23, 78, 115)
hslhsl(204, 67%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.407 0.084 242.7)
Closest name: Raging Thunderstorm (#004f63)Relative luminance 0.0687

Colors that go with #174e73

Royal Blue, Teal 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

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#733c17

#17736a · #172073

#73174e · #4e7317

Split-complementary

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#731720 · #736a17

#6a1773 · #733c17 · #207317

Contrast

#174e73 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.85:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.37:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #247cb7 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #449eda as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bababa (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #174e73 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

#174e73 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #174e73
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 #174e73 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/174e73-9cafc4-df4e5a-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md