#42a3cd as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.86:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #2b7ea1 as the text (4.56:1) AAA: use #205e79 as the text (7.15:1) AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.62:1) AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.01:1)
Aaon black	7.35:1	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 #42a3cd 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

#42a3cd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Modern fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42a3cd

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 #42a3cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42a3cd-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md