#282e2a as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	13.87:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.51:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #68786e as the text (4.5:1) AAA: use #8a998f as the text (7.03:1) AA: or shift the background to #949494 (4.57:1) AAA: or shift the background to #bababa (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 #282e2a as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

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Homestead

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Timber and olive for homes that photograph in golden hour; nothing here competes with a good listing photo.

Warm Muted FriendlyReal Estate

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Clean Beauty

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Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.

Minimal Muted CleanBeauty

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Olive Grove

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Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.

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Fonts for this mood

#282e2a reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Neutral fonts →Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #282e2a

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 #282e2a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/282e2a-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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