#8e8e85 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	3.3:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #77776e as the text (4.52:1) AAA: use #585851 as the text (7.17:1) AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.58:1)
Aaon black	6.36:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #96968d as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e8e85 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

d4af37 8a8a8a c0392b 0d0d0d f5f5f5

Noir Beauty

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Black, gold and one deep red — the prestige cosmetics counter: all restraint and a single lipstick.

Dark Luxury BoldBeauty

1a1a1a 8c8c8c 3a86ff f2f2f2

Studio Grey

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A pure greyscale with a single electric blue — the portfolio palette that makes work look considered.

Minimal Muted Modern

Fonts for this mood

#8e8e85 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Neutral fonts →Minimal fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e8e85

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 #8e8e85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e8e85-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md