#40290d as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	13.63:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.54:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #a56a22 as the text (4.68:1) AAA: use #cf852a as the text (7.04:1) AA: or shift the background to #969696 (4.61:1) AAA: or shift the background to #bababa (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #40290d as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

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Bakery

Open in tool →

Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.

Warm Muted ElegantFood

Fonts for this mood

#40290d 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 #40290d

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 #40290d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/40290d-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md