#4e4142 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	9.73:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.16:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #856f71 as the text (4.51:1) AAA: use #a59394 as the text (7.2:1) AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.64:1) AAA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e4142 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

f4a6a0 a8d8ea ffd97d fef9f3 4a3f3a

Nursery

Open in tool →

Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.

Light Muted FriendlyKids

Fonts for this mood

#4e4142 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e4142

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 #4e4142 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e4142-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md