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Color
#17111d
#17111d
hex
#17111drgb
rgb(23, 17, 29)hsl
hsl(270, 26%, 9%)oklch
oklch(0.191 0.025 307)Closest name: Back in Black (#16141c)Relative luminance 0.0067
Colors that go with #17111d
Charcoal, Amber and 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 that reads cleanly against #17111d without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #17111d in 18 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped22 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and native Cybersecurity's brand system put Blue beside #17111d, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #17111d in 10 real palettes, including Prepare your taste buds...'s brand system and Klarna US's brand system, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Cartier's brand system put Blush Pink beside #17111d, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Garnet put Brown beside #17111d, as the supporting colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Qatar Airways's brand system and Mailchimp's brand system put Burgundy beside #17111d, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #17111d in 5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Velvet, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #17111d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #17111d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.51:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.13:1 | 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 #17111d as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#17111d reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #17111d
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 #17111d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/17111d-b59cc4-c9cb62-2c1f2d-eae9f1?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