Color

#176dab

#176dab
hex#176dab
rgbrgb(23, 109, 171)
hslhsl(205, 76%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.518 0.124 246.3)
Closest name: Brilliant Blue (#0075b3)Relative luminance 0.1406

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ab5517

#17ab9e · #1724ab

#ab176d · #6dab17

Split-complementary

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#ab1724 · #ab9e17

#9e17ab · #ab5517 · #24ab17

Contrast

#176dab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.51:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #145c90 as the text (7.09:1)
Aaon black
3.81:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #1a79bc as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #3a9de4 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.62:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #176dab 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

#176dab reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #176dab
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 #176dab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/176dab-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md