#201a0e as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	17.28:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.22:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8e733e as the text (4.67:1) AAA: use #b39251 as the text (7.15:1) AA: or shift the background to #858585 (4.68:1) AAA: or shift the background to #a6a6a6 (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 #201a0e as the background.

Brands using this color

BrandSweetstext · #241c14 · Δ1.44

Palettes built around it

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Newsprint

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

Editorial Muted Warm

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Magazine Ochre

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Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.

Editorial Warm Muted

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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

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Trailhead

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Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.

Warm Bold VividOutdoors

Fonts for this mood

#201a0e 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 #201a0e

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 #201a0e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/201a0e-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md