#40bced as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.18:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #107da8 as the text (4.65:1) AAA: use #0c5e7e as the text (7.2:1) AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.61:1) AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.12:1)
Aaon black	9.63:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #40bced as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

38bdf8 818cf8 fbbf24 0f172a e2e8f0

Blueprint

Open in tool →

Cyan and indigo on navy is the developer-tool look; amber is the only warm note, so it always reads as 'attention'.

Technical Cool Modern Dark

Fonts for this mood

#40bced reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #40bced

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 #40bced and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/40bced-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md