#40ddce as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	1.69:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #178277 as the text (4.67:1) AAA: use #12645b as the text (7:1) AA: or shift the background to #525252 (4.63:1) AAA: or shift the background to #363636 (7.17:1)
Aaon black	12.45:1	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 #40ddce 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 #40ddce

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

tool url/palettes/new/40ddce-a2bebe-d459a1-1f292d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md