#42baff as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.17:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #007bc2 as the text (4.55:1) AAA: use #005a8f as the text (7.34:1) AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.64:1) AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.17:1)
Aaon black	9.7:1	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 #42baff as the background.

Brands using this color

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

#42baff reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42baff

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

tool url/palettes/new/42baff-9cb1c4-df4e5f-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md