#a31442 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	7.68:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.74:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #e31c5b as the text (4.58:1) AAA: use #ec6993 as the text (7.01:1) AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.54:1) AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a31442 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

9f1239 6b2a47 e5b769 120a10 f5e9ee

Velvet

Open in tool →

Burgundy and plum on near-black with a brass accent — theatre, wine, and anything that wants to feel after-dark.

Luxury Dark Bold

Fonts for this mood

#a31442 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Playful fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a31442

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 #a31442 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a31442-c49ca4-62cb77-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md