Color
#176fa6
#176fa6rgb(23, 111, 166)hsl(203, 76%, 37%)oklch(0.52 0.116 242.8)Colors that go with #176fa6
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #176fa6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #176fa6 in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Indigo SaaS, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #176fa6 in 5 real palettes, including Open House and Fintech Trust, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #176fa6 in 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Mid-Century, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sienna #a0522d
complementarySienna sits directly opposite #176fa6 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Rust #b7410e
split-complementshippedRust is a split-complement of #176fa6: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #176fa6 in 3 real palettes, including Open House and Alpine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #176fa6 in 3 real palettes, including Glacier and Fintech Trust, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #176fa6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #176fa6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.44:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.86:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #176fa6 as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#176fa6 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #176fa6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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