#8a778d as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	4.11:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #826f85 as the text (4.6:1) AAA: use #625464 as the text (7.07:1) AA: or shift the background to #121212 (4.55:1)
Aaon black	5.1:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #a090a2 as the text (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 #8a778d 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

#8a778d reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Minimal fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a778d

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 #8a778d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a778d-c09fc1-a3cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md