#40201c as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	14.57:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.44:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #b35d51 as the text (4.6:1) AAA: use #c7887f as the text (7.26:1) AA: or shift the background to #8f8f8f (4.51:1) AAA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #40201c as the background.

Brands using this color

Superhumansecondary · #421d24 · Δ1.893

Fonts for this mood

#40201c reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #40201c

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 #40201c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/40201c-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md