Smoky Charcoal as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	14.13:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.49:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8d6d78 as the text (4.59:1) AAA: use #a88f97 as the text (7.04:1) AA: or shift the background to #949494 (4.66:1) AAA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (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 Smoky Charcoal as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

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Blush

Open in tool →

Rose and skin tones on a pink-white surface — soft focus, flattering, unmistakably beauty.

Light Warm ElegantBeauty

Fonts for this mood

Smoky Charcoal 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 Smoky Charcoal

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 #34282c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/34282c-c49ca5-62cb75-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md