#40404f as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	10.17:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.06:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #73738c as the text (4.56:1) AAA: use #9494a8 as the text (7.06:1) AA: or shift the background to #adadad (4.53:1) AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #40404f 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

#40404f reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #40404f

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 #40404f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/40404f-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md