#494131 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	10.08:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.08:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #847558 as the text (4.67:1) AAA: use #a39475 as the text (7.05:1) AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.65:1) AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #494131 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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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

#494131 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 #494131

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 #494131 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/494131-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md