#172026 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	16.52:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.27:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #587b93 as the text (4.67:1) AAA: use #7c9cb1 as the text (7.25:1) AA: or shift the background to #878787 (4.6:1) AAA: or shift the background to #ababab (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #172026 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

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Fresh Juice

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Orange, mango and mint — a sugar rush; keep the type black so it stays legible under all that color.

Playful Vivid LightFood

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Alpine

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Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.

Cool Clean LightOutdoors

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Playground

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Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.

Bold Playful WarmKids

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Paper & Pine

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Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.

Minimal Cool Clean Muted

Fonts for this mood

#172026 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #172026

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 #172026 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/172026-9cafc4-df4e5a-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md