#996900 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	4.8:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #755000 as the text (7.23:1)
Aaon black	4.38:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #9e6c00 as the text (4.6:1) AAA: use #cc8b00 as the text (7.26:1) AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #996900 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#996900 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 #996900

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 #996900 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/996900-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md