#9ca3bf as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.5:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #6b759e as the text (4.5:1) AAA: use #4f5778 as the text (7.08:1) AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.69:1) AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.18:1)
Aaon black	8.4:1	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 #9ca3bf as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ca3bf

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 #9ca3bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca3bf-9c9fc4-df7c4e-231f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md