#a0baa5 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.09:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #5a7c61 as the text (4.68:1) AAA: use #455f4a as the text (7.03:1) AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.59:1) AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.25:1)
Aaon black	10.06:1	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 #a0baa5 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

e8c170 a8b5a0 f28e6b 1f2a24 f1ede4

Chalkboard

Open in tool →

Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.

Dark Muted WarmEducation

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a0baa5

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 #a0baa5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a0baa5-a2beab-b64edf-1f2d28-ecf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md