#a5a1a5 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.55:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #7a757a as the text (4.51:1) AAA: use #5b575b as the text (7.1:1) AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.6:1) AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.04:1)
Aaon black	8.24:1	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 #a5a1a5 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

a1a1aa 71717a f59e0b 18181b f4f4f5

Graphite

Open in tool →

A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.

Technical Muted Dark Modern

Fonts for this mood

#a5a1a5 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Neutral fonts →Minimal fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5a1a5

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 #a5a1a5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5a1a5-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md