#172721 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	15.57:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.35:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #4b816d as the text (4.66:1) AAA: use #62a38b as the text (7.13:1) AA: or shift the background to #8a8a8a (4.51:1) AAA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #172721 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

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Chalkboard

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Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.

Dark Muted WarmEducation

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Forest Floor

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Moss and bark with a mushroom-cap amber — grounded and quiet, made for long-form nature content.

Dark Muted WarmOutdoors

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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

#172721 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #172721

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 #172721 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/172721-a2beb7-d459c2-1f2c2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md