#252d2c as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	14.09:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.49:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #637976 as the text (4.53:1) AAA: use #849a97 as the text (7.05:1) AA: or shift the background to #949494 (4.64:1) AAA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #252d2c as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

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Chalkboard

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Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.

Dark Muted WarmEducation

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Clean Beauty

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Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.

Minimal Muted CleanBeauty

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Olive Grove

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Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.

Muted Warm Elegant

Fonts for this mood

#252d2c reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #252d2c

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 #252d2c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/252d2c-a2bebe-d459a5-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md