#160e09 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	19.08:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.1:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #a36843 as the text (4.62:1) AAA: use #c18967 as the text (7.04:1) AA: or shift the background to #7d7d7d (4.63:1) AAA: or shift the background to #9e9e9e (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #160e09 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

e11d48 111111 facc15 ffffff

Tabloid

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Red, black and yellow on white is the loudest three-color system in print — use it when headlines are the product.

Editorial Bold Vivid

6d28d9 0f0f0f a3e635 ffffff

Neobank

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Purple-and-lime is the challenger-bank uniform — high energy, and clearly not a legacy bank.

Vivid Bold ModernFintech

f25f29 b03a2e f2c14e 14100e f8ede3

Ember

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Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.

Bold Dark Warm

Fonts for this mood

#160e09 reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #160e09

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 #160e09 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/160e09-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md