Mercury Secondary as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.08:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #4572d3 as the text (4.56:1) AAA: use #2953ae as the text (7.14:1) AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.61:1) AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7:1)
Aaon black	10.11:1	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 Mercury Secondary as the background.

Brands using this color

Mercurysecondary · #9cb4e8

Fonts for this mood

Mercury Secondary reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →Clean fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Mercury Secondary

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 #9cb4e8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9cb4e8-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md