#40544d as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	8.1:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.59:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #5e7d72 as the text (4.65:1) AAA: use #7c9c91 as the text (7.02:1) AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.55:1) AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #40544d 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

#40544d reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #40544d

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 #40544d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/40544d-a2beb8-d459c0-1f2c2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md