Bookshop
Open in tool →Chestnut and forest on cream read like a cloth-bound spine; the palette recedes so covers and type do the talking.
Color
#175e52
#175e52
hex
#175e52rgb
rgb(23, 94, 82)hsl
hsl(170, 61%, 23%)oklch
oklch(0.436 0.071 178.9)Closest name: Mosque (#005f5b)Relative luminance 0.088
Colors that go with #175e52
Cadet Blue, Goldenrod and Midnight 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #175e52 in 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Alpine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #175e52 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #175e52 in 4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #175e52 in 4 real palettes, including Console Light and GitHub's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #175e52 in 6 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #175e52 in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
complementaryMedium Violet Red sits directly opposite #175e52 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #175e52: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #175e52
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #175e52 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.61:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.76:1 | 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 #175e52 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#175e52 reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #175e52
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 #175e52 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/175e52-a2bebd-d459a9-1f292d-e9f1ec?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