#17140d as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	18.38:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.14:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #86744b as the text (4.61:1) AAA: use #a99566 as the text (7.18:1) AA: or shift the background to #808080 (4.65:1) AAA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (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 #17140d as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

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Gallery

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Near-monochrome with one burnt-orange highlight — an art director's default because it never competes with the work.

Editorial Minimal Light

c58b4a 8a6a55 e5c48a 1e1512 f3e9dd

Coffee Bar

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Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.

Dark Warm LuxuryFood

141414 8c8680 9c7a4a f6f4f0

Atelier

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Black on bone with a whisper of gold: the runway default that lets garments carry the color.

Elegant Minimal LuxuryFashion

f25f29 b03a2e f2c14e 14100e f8ede3

Ember

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Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.

Bold Dark Warm

Fonts for this mood

#17140d 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 #17140d

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 #17140d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/17140d-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md