#402020 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	14.53:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.45:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #af6060 as the text (4.66:1) AAA: use #c38888 as the text (7.2:1) AA: or shift the background to #919191 (4.61:1) AAA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #402020 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#402020 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 #402020

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 #402020 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/402020-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md