#281f26 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	15.98:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.31:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8d6d86 as the text (4.66:1) AAA: use #a88fa3 as the text (7.12:1) AA: or shift the background to #8a8a8a (4.63:1) AAA: or shift the background to #adadad (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #281f26 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

ff5e5b 00cecb ffed66 ffffff 222222

Crayon Box

Open in tool →

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

Playful Vivid FriendlyKids

Fonts for this mood

#281f26 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 #281f26

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 #281f26 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/281f26-c19fb5-7ecb62-2d1f24-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md