#999c8b as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.81:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #737665 as the text (4.66:1) AAA: use #56584b as the text (7.26:1) AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.5:1) AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.05:1)
Aaon black	7.48:1	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 #999c8b as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#999c8b reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Minimal fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #999c8b

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 #999c8b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/999c8b-b6bea2-4e7adf-252d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md