#172178 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	13.77:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.53:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #5c69e0 as the text (4.55:1) AAA: use #8791e8 as the text (7.25:1) AA: or shift the background to #949494 (4.54:1) AAA: or shift the background to #bababa (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #172178 as the background.

Brands using this color

Discordsecondary · #1a2081 · Δ1.593

Fonts for this mood

#172178 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #172178

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 #172178 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/172178-9d9cc4-df8a4e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md