#495f5a as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	6.85:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #475c57 as the text (7.15:1)
Aaon black	3.07:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #5f7c75 as the text (4.63:1) AAA: use #809d97 as the text (7.19:1) AA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (4.62:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #495f5a as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #495f5a

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 #495f5a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/495f5a-a2bebb-d459b1-1f2a2d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md