#493a36 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	10.81:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.94:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8a6e66 as the text (4.5:1) AAA: use #a8908a as the text (7.02:1) AA: or shift the background to #a8a8a8 (4.55:1) AAA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #493a36 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

f4a6a0 a8d8ea ffd97d fef9f3 4a3f3a

Nursery

Open in tool →

Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.

Light Muted FriendlyKids

Fonts for this mood

#493a36 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 #493a36

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 #493a36 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/493a36-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md