#a74c01 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	5.71:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #8e4001 as the text (7.28:1)
Aaon black	3.68:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #c15701 as the text (4.63:1) AAA: use #f46e01 as the text (7.08:1) AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a74c01 as the background.

Brands using this color

BrandSweetsprimary · #a4501c · Δ1.258

Fonts for this mood

#a74c01 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 #a74c01

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 #a74c01 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a74c01-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md