Alpine
Open in tool →Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.
Color
#17222b
#17222b
hex
#17222brgb
rgb(23, 34, 43)hsl
hsl(207, 30%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.246 0.023 243.6)Closest name: Sunken Ship (#10252a)Relative luminance 0.015
Colors that go with #17222b
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #17222b without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #17222b in 18 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #17222b, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #17222b in 10 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Estate put Blush Pink beside #17222b, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #17222b, as the accent.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Qatar Airways's brand system and Mailchimp's brand system put Burgundy beside #17222b, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #17222b in 6 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Coastal, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #17222b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #17222b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.15:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.3:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #17222b as the background.
Brands using this color
- NFLaccent · #172029 · Δ0.723
- AT&Tprimary · #1d2329 · Δ1.138
- AT&Ttext · #1d2329 · Δ1.138
- Qatar Airwaysprimary · #1f212b · Δ1.322
- Qatar Airwaystext · #1f212b · Δ1.322
- Boxtext · #151f26 · Δ1.342
- GitHubtext · #1f2328 · Δ1.5
- Subarutext · #1d252c · Δ1.512
- Airtableaccent · #181d26 · Δ1.784
- Audisecondary · #181d25 · Δ1.841
Palettes built around it
Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Fonts for this mood
#17222b reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #17222b
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #17222b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/17222b-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md