#494f5f as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	8.18:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.57:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #6d758d as the text (4.58:1) AAA: use #8f96a8 as the text (7.1:1) AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.59:1) AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #494f5f 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

2563eb 52525b 16a34a fafafa 18181b

Console Light

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A sober docs palette: one blue for interactive, one green for success, zinc greys for everything else.

Technical Clean Light

mcpConnect your agent — build around #494f5f

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 #494f5f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/494f5f-9ca2c4-df724e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md