#0040ad as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	8.99:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.34:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #146aff as the text (4.54:1) AAA: use #5794ff as the text (7.09:1) AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.53:1) AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (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 #0040ad as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

1b1b1b 6e6e6e 1e40af fcfbf7

Ink & Paper

Open in tool →

Two greys and one ink-blue link color: the palette of a well-set book page.

Minimal Editorial Clean

1e40af 111827 fb7185 ffffff

Cobalt Pop

Open in tool →

One deep cobalt and one hot pink on white — a two-accent system for launches and campaign pages that need punch.

Bold Cool Vivid Modern

Fonts for this mood

#0040ad reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #0040ad

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 #0040ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/0040ad-9ca6c4-df644e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md