#8897af as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.96:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #647796 as the text (4.54:1) AAA: use #49586e as the text (7.23:1) AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.59:1) AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.09:1)
Aaon black	7.09:1	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 #8897af 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

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Estate

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Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.

Luxury Dark ElegantReal Estate

4b5d8a 8b97b3 c07a4e eef0f4 1f2430

Dusk

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Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.

Cool Muted Elegant

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8897af

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 #8897af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8897af-9ca7c4-df624e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md