#161810 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	17.91:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.17:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #707a52 as the text (4.59:1) AAA: use #8f9b69 as the text (7.06:1) AA: or shift the background to #808080 (4.54:1) AAA: or shift the background to #a3a3a3 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #161810 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

b91c1c 78716c d97706 f5f1ea 1c1917

Newsprint

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Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.

Editorial Muted Warm

171717 737373 c2410c ffffff

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

ea580c 1c1917 0891b2 ffffff

Launch Orange

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Orange is the rarest SaaS primary, which is exactly why it stands out on a pricing page; cyan keeps it from feeling like a hardware store.

Bold Warm Vivid ModernSaas

Fonts for this mood

#161810 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #161810

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 #161810 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/161810-b4bea2-4e70df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md