Color

#178de8

#178de8
hex#178de8
rgbrgb(23, 141, 232)
hslhsl(206, 82%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.63 0.166 249)
Closest name: dodgerblue (#1e90ff)Relative luminance 0.2506

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e87217

#17e8da · #1725e8

#e8178d · #8de817

Split-complementary

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#e81725 · #e8da17

#da17e8 · #e87217 · #25e817

Contrast

#178de8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.49:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #147ac8 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #0f5b95 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.01:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #339beb as the text (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #178de8 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

#178de8 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #178de8
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 #178de8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/178de8-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md