#8a385b as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	7.51:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.8:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #b8517e as the text (4.52:1) AAA: use #cb80a1 as the text (7.14:1) AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.53:1) AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a385b 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

#8a385b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a385b

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 #8a385b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a385b-c49ca9-62cb6b-2d1f1f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md