#495242 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	8.17:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.57:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #6c7a62 as the text (4.6:1) AAA: use #8d9b82 as the text (7.14:1) AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.59:1) AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #495242 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

#495242 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #495242

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 #495242 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/495242-abbea2-5a4edf-1f2d1f-f0f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md