Shot in the Dark as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	18.62:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.13:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #b04fb0 as the text (4.59:1) AAA: use #c57dc5 as the text (7.11:1) AA: or shift the background to #7d7d7d (4.52:1) AAA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (7.21:1)

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

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

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Sunset Boulevard

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Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.

Warm Vivid Bold Dark

Fonts for this mood

Shot in the Dark 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 Shot in the Dark

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 #1d0d1d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/1d0d1d-c19fbd-95cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md