#261d22 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	16.39:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.28:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8d6d7f as the text (4.63:1) AAA: use #a88f9d as the text (7.08:1) AA: or shift the background to #878787 (4.56:1) AAA: or shift the background to #ababab (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #261d22 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

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Fresh Juice

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Orange, mango and mint — a sugar rush; keep the type black so it stays legible under all that color.

Playful Vivid LightFood

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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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Retro Pop

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Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.

Playful Bold Warm

Fonts for this mood

#261d22 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 #261d22

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 #261d22 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/261d22-c19fae-66cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md