#8a5156 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	6.19:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #7d4a4e as the text (7.09:1)
Aaon black	3.39:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #a36267 as the text (4.5:1) AAA: use #bb8b8f as the text (7.2:1) AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a5156 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

#8a5156 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a5156

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 #8a5156 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a5156-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md