#1b2428 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	15.79:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.33:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #5b7986 as the text (4.52:1) AAA: use #7d9aa6 as the text (7.04:1) AA: or shift the background to #8a8a8a (4.58:1) AAA: or shift the background to #adadad (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #1b2428 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

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Alpine

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Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.

Cool Clean LightOutdoors

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Crayon Box

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Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.

Playful Vivid FriendlyKids

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Dusk

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Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.

Cool Muted Elegant

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Paper & Pine

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Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.

Minimal Cool Clean Muted

Fonts for this mood

#1b2428 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #1b2428

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 #1b2428 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/1b2428-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md