#8a959e as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	3.06:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #6b7680 as the text (4.64:1) AAA: use #515a61 as the text (7.04:1) AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.63:1)
Aaon black	6.87:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #8d97a0 as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a959e 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

b08d57 8a97a5 c9c9c9 101418 eef1f4

Estate

Open in tool →

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

Luxury Dark ElegantReal Estate

Fonts for this mood

#8a959e reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Minimal fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a959e

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 #8a959e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a959e-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md