Color
#717a2e
#717a2ergb(113, 122, 46)hsl(67, 45%, 33%)oklch(0.556 0.1 115.4)Colors that go with #717a2e
Charcoal, Blue Violet and 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #717a2e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
complementaryshippedBlue Violet sits directly opposite #717a2e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #717a2e, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside #717a2e, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #717a2e: 4 real palettes, including Wellness and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #717a2e in 4 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #717a2e: 6 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #717a2e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #717a2e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #717a2e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.64:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.53:1 | 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 #717a2e 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 #717a2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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