Color

#174ea1

#174ea1
hex#174ea1
rgbrgb(23, 78, 161)
hslhsl(216, 75%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.439 0.146 259.1)
Closest name: Cascade Twilight (#234893)Relative luminance 0.082

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a16a17

#1793a1 · #2517a1

#a1174e · #4ea117

Split-complementary

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#a12517 · #93a117

#a11793 · #a16a17 · #17a125

Contrast

#174ea1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.95:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2972e0 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #6398e9 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #174ea1 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

#174ea1 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #174ea1
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #174ea1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/174ea1-9ca7c4-df5f4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md