#8a85a8 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	3.5:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #767099 as the text (4.62:1) AAA: use #585374 as the text (7.23:1) AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.6:1)
Aaon black	6:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #9894b3 as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a85a8 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

cbb26a 8b83a8 b8b8c8 0a0a12 efe9dd

Midnight Luxe

Open in tool →

Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.

Luxury Dark Elegant

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a85a8

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 #8a85a8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a85a8-a79cc4-dfae4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md