#9f9999 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.8:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #7b7474 as the text (4.57:1) AAA: use #5c5757 as the text (7.1:1) AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.51:1) AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.06:1)
Aaon black	7.49:1	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 #9f9999 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

#9f9999 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Neutral fonts →Minimal fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9f9999

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 #9f9999 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9f9999-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md