#40545e as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	7.93:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.65:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #5d7a89 as the text (4.61:1) AAA: use #809ba8 as the text (7.17:1) AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.55:1) AAA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #40545e as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #40545e

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 #40545e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/40545e-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md