brandsweets

Color

#171217

#171217
hex#171217
rgbrgb(23, 18, 23)
hslhsl(300, 12%, 8%)
oklchoklch(0.191 0.013 326.1)
Closest name: Back in Black (#16141c)Relative luminance 0.0068
WarmMutedDarkEditorialElegantLuxuryBold
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Colors that go with #171217

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.

Real palettes that use #171217

Bose· brandPlayStation® Official Site: Consoles, Games, Accessories & MoreSony Interactive Entertainment· brandXfinity· brandLemon Squeezy· brand

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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171217121712

#121712

Analogous

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171217141217171214

#141217 · #171214

Triadic

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171217171712121717

#171712 · #121717

Split-complementary

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171217141712121714

#141712 · #121714

Tetradic

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171217171412121712121417

#171412 · #121712 · #121417

Contrast

#171217 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
18.5:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #896c89 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #a790a7 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #808080 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #171217 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#171217 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →
mcpConnect your agent — build around #171217
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

›analyze #171217 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/171217-c19fbd-95cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md