#9ca178 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.7:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #747854 as the text (4.61:1) AAA: use #575a3f as the text (7.14:1) AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.68:1) AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.1:1)
Aaon black	7.78:1	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 #9ca178 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

7b5e3b 9aa27a c96f3a f9f5ee 2f2a24

Homestead

Open in tool →

Timber and olive for homes that photograph in golden hour; nothing here competes with a good listing photo.

Warm Muted FriendlyReal Estate

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ca178

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 #9ca178 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca178-b8bea2-4e83df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md