#172027 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	16.51:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.27:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #577994 as the text (4.57:1) AAA: use #7b9ab2 as the text (7.11:1) AA: or shift the background to #878787 (4.59:1) 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 #172027 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

ff6b35 ffd166 06d6a0 ffffff 1f1f1f

Fresh Juice

Open in tool →

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

Playful Vivid LightFood

1f6f8b 7fa2b6 e76f51 f5f8fa 15222e

Alpine

Open in tool →

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

Cool Clean LightOutdoors

Fonts for this mood

#172027 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #172027

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 #172027 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/172027-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md