#8a979e as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	3:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #6b7880 as the text (4.54:1) AAA: use #4f595f as the text (7.18:1) AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.53:1) AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7:1)
Aaon black	7:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a979e 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

#8a979e reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Minimal fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a979e

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 #8a979e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a979e-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md