#1a141a as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	18.12:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.16:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8a6a8a as the text (4.51:1) AAA: use #a88fa8 as the text (7.16:1) 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 #1a141a 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

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Console Light

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A sober docs palette: one blue for interactive, one green for success, zinc greys for everything else.

Technical Clean Light

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Graphite

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

Technical Muted Dark Modern

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Coffee Bar

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Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.

Dark Warm LuxuryFood

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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

Fonts for this mood

#1a141a reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #1a141a

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 #1a141a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/1a141a-c19fbd-95cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md