#ae501e as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	5.3:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #904218 as the text (7.05:1)
Aaon black	3.97:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #c05821 as the text (4.66:1) AAA: use #df7a43 as the text (7:1) AA: or shift the background to #ededed (4.52:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae501e as the background.

Brands using this color

BrandSweetsprimary · #a4501c · Δ1.953

Palettes built around it

b45309 6b5b45 0f766e f7f3ec 1f1a14

Magazine Ochre

Open in tool →

Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.

Editorial Warm Muted

Fonts for this mood

#ae501e 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 #ae501e

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 #ae501e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae501e-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md