Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#17baa2rgb(23, 186, 162)hsl(171, 78%, 41%)oklch(0.708 0.126 178.8)Charcoal, Hot Pink and Midnight 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 is the text near-black for #17baa2: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Hot Pink sits directly opposite #17baa2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
7 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #17baa2, as the text colour against it.
5 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Diner put Mustard Yellow beside #17baa2, as the accent.
Royal Blue is paired with #17baa2 in 6 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe is paired with #17baa2 in 13 real palettes, including Resort and Crayon Box, as the text colour against it.
3 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #17baa2, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood is paired with #17baa2 in 3 real palettes, including Coastal and Polaroid, as the accent.
| #17baa2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.45:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.58:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #17baa2 as the background.
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 #17baa2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/17baa2-a2bebd-d459a7-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md