Color
#17875e
#17875ergb(23, 135, 94)hsl(158, 71%, 31%)oklch(0.554 0.115 162.2)Colors that go with #17875e
Charcoal, Copper and Taupe 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 for #17875e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #17875e in 4 real palettes, including Wellness and Riverbed, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #17875e in 13 real palettes, including Wellness and Mushroom, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
complementaryMedium Violet Red sits directly opposite #17875e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
split-complementshippedDark Orchid is a split-complement of #17875e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
split-complementshippedCrimson is a split-complement of #17875e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #17875e in 3 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Fintech Trust, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Rust #b7410e
triadicshippedRust completes a triad with #17875e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #17875e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #17875e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.5:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.66:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #17875e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #17875e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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