#40080e as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	16.68:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.26:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #e42134 as the text (4.57:1) AAA: use #ed6e7a as the text (7.11:1) AA: or shift the background to #858585 (4.52:1) AAA: or shift the background to #a8a8a8 (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #40080e as the background.

Brands using this color

Boxaccent · #48060a · Δ1.951

Fonts for this mood

#40080e reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Playful fonts →Bold fonts →Luxury fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #40080e

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 #40080e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/40080e-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md