Color
#17230b
#17230brgb(23, 35, 11)hsl(90, 52%, 9%)oklch(0.238 0.045 131.1)Colors that go with #17230b
Charcoal, Sea Green and Slate 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 body-text near-black for #17230b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
analogousshippedSea Green is #17230b's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
split-complementshippedSlate Blue is a split-complement of #17230b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #17230b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryshippedDark Orchid sits directly opposite #17230b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #17230b in 15 real palettes, including Trailhead and Maple, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Signal's brand system put Blue beside #17230b, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #17230b in 10 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #17230b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #17230b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.38:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.28:1 | 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 #17230b as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#17230b reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #17230b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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