Color

#178aa1

#178aa1
hex#178aa1
rgbrgb(23, 138, 161)
hslhsl(190, 75%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.585 0.099 215.8)
Closest name: Ahoy! Blue (#0082a1)Relative luminance 0.2093

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a12e17

#17a173 · #1745a1

#a1178a · #8aa117

Split-complementary

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#a11745 · #a17317

#7317a1 · #a12e17 · #45a117

Contrast

#178aa1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.05:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #157e93 as the text (4.73:1)
  • AAA: use #106070 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.55:1)
Aaon black
5.19:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #1ba4c0 as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #178aa1 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

#178aa1 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #178aa1
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 #178aa1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/178aa1-a2b6be-df4e7c-1f252d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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