#231515 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	17.65:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.19:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #a36666 as the text (4.65:1) AAA: use #ba8c8c as the text (7.22:1) AA: or shift the background to #828282 (4.59:1) AAA: or shift the background to #a6a6a6 (7.25:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #231515 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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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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Coffee Bar

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

Dark Warm LuxuryFood

Fonts for this mood

#231515 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 #231515

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 #231515 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/231515-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md