#8c9da6 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.8:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #647782 as the text (4.66:1) AAA: use #4b5a62 as the text (7.15:1) AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.51:1) AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.06:1)
Aaon black	7.49:1	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 #8c9da6 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

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

Luxury Dark ElegantReal Estate

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8c9da6

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 #8c9da6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8c9da6-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md