#9cac8b as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.42:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #697a57 as the text (4.64:1) AAA: use #4f5c42 as the text (7.14:1) AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.63:1) AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.05:1)
Aaon black	8.69:1	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 #9cac8b 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 #9cac8b

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 #9cac8b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9cac8b-adbea2-4e4edf-212d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md