#174ecf as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	6.94:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #164cca as the text (7.19:1)
Aaon black	3.03:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #3a6ee9 as the text (4.59:1) AAA: use #6c93ef as the text (7.06:1) AA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (4.54:1)

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

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

1d4ed8 64748b f59e0b ffffff 1e293b

Campus

Open in tool →

Institutional blue with a highlighter-amber accent — trustworthy for parents, lively enough for students.

Friendly Cool CleanEducation

Fonts for this mood

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

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #174ecf

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

tool url/palettes/new/174ecf-9ca3c4-df6e4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md