#256dad as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	5.43:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #1e5a8f as the text (7.21:1)
Aaon black	3.87:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #2878bd as the text (4.51:1) AAA: use #529bda as the text (7.06:1) AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #256dad 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

#256dad reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #256dad

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 #256dad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/256dad-9cadc4-df4e51-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md