#42b87f as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.5:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #2f835b as the text (4.65:1) AAA: use #236143 as the text (7.34:1) AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.69:1) AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.17:1)
Aaon black	8.39:1	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 #42b87f 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

4f46e5 6b7280 10b981 ffffff 111827

Indigo SaaS

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The dependable indigo-and-emerald B2B pairing: indigo for primary actions, emerald reserved for success states.

Modern Cool CleanSaas

10b981 134e4a f59e0b ffffff 10231b

Mint Modern

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Emerald as a primary rather than a success color, anchored by deep teal text — fresh, friendly, and fintech-adjacent.

Modern Clean FriendlyFintech

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42b87f

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 #42b87f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42b87f-a2beb4-d459d0-1f2d2c-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md