#e8e8ed as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	1.22:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #737391 as the text (4.58:1) AAA: use #55556d as the text (7.23:1) AA: or shift the background to #666666 (4.7:1) AAA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (7.26:1)
Aaon black	17.2:1	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 #e8e8ed 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

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Terminal

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Green for success, blue for links, pink for emphasis — the dark-mode developer family, tuned to sit on near-black without glare.

Technical Dark Modern

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Blueprint

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Cyan and indigo on navy is the developer-tool look; amber is the only warm note, so it always reads as 'attention'.

Technical Cool Modern Dark

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Ledger Dark

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Gold on midnight is the private-banking cue; the mint accent keeps it from feeling old-money stuffy.

Dark Luxury TechnicalFintech

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Velvet

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Burgundy and plum on near-black with a brass accent — theatre, wine, and anything that wants to feel after-dark.

Luxury Dark Bold

Fonts for this mood

#e8e8ed reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Minimal fonts →Clean fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e8e8ed

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 #e8e8ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e8e8ed-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md