#178b96 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	4.06:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #16838d as the text (4.5:1) AAA: use #11626a as the text (7.05:1) AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.54:1)
Aaon black	5.17:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #1ca8b5 as the text (7.32:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #178b96 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

#178b96 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #178b96

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 #178b96 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/178b96-a2b8be-df4e88-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md