#40cecc as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	1.92:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #218280 as the text (4.6:1) AAA: use #196160 as the text (7.19:1) AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.61:1) AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.06:1)
Aaon black	10.92:1	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 #40cecc 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

ff5e5b 00cecb ffed66 ffffff 222222

Crayon Box

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Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.

Playful Vivid FriendlyKids

mcpConnect your agent — build around #40cecc

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

tool url/palettes/new/40cecc-a2bbbe-d45996-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md