#85a3ad as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.68:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #5a7b87 as the text (4.55:1) AAA: use #435d65 as the text (7.02:1) AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.51:1) AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.16:1)
Aaon black	7.84:1	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 #85a3ad 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

1f6f8b 7fa2b6 e76f51 f5f8fa 15222e

Alpine

Open in tool →

Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.

Cool Clean LightOutdoors

mcpConnect your agent — build around #85a3ad

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 #85a3ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/85a3ad-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md