#0c1818 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	18.11:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.16:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #418181 as the text (4.68:1) AAA: use #52a3a3 as the text (7.13:1) AA: or shift the background to #808080 (4.59:1) AAA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #0c1818 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

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Gallery

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Near-monochrome with one burnt-orange highlight — an art director's default because it never competes with the work.

Editorial Minimal Light

141414 8c8680 9c7a4a f6f4f0

Atelier

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Black on bone with a whisper of gold: the runway default that lets garments carry the color.

Elegant Minimal LuxuryFashion

b08d57 8a97a5 c9c9c9 101418 eef1f4

Estate

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Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.

Luxury Dark ElegantReal Estate

Fonts for this mood

#0c1818 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #0c1818

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 #0c1818 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/0c1818-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md