#9c9981 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.88:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #78755e as the text (4.66:1) AAA: use #5b5948 as the text (7.08:1) AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.58:1) AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.07:1)
Aaon black	7.29:1	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 #9c9981 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

#9c9981 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9c9981

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 #9c9981 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9c9981-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md