#a8a271 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.6:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #7b764c as the text (4.63:1) AAA: use #5c5838 as the text (7.22:1) AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.51:1) AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.08:1)
Aaon black	8.07:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a8a271 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

6b6b2e a8a670 a1421f f6f3ea 2c2a22

Olive Grove

Open in tool →

Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.

Muted Warm Elegant

Fonts for this mood

#a8a271 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a271

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 #a8a271 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a271-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md