#174f40 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	9.42:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.23:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #27866d as the text (4.72:1) AAA: use #31aa8a as the text (7.25:1) AA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (4.59:1) AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #174f40 as the background.

Brands using this color

Squarespaceaccent · #1e4c41 · Δ1.157

Palettes built around it

10b981 134e4a f59e0b ffffff 10231b

Mint Modern

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Emerald as a primary rather than a success color, anchored by deep teal text — fresh, friendly, and fintech-adjacent.

Modern Clean FriendlyFintech

1f4d3a 8aa39b d98c3f f7f7f4 1c2321

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

#174f40 reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #174f40

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 #174f40 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/174f40-a2beba-d459b5-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md