#bc401a as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	5.4:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #9d3515 as the text (7.11:1)
Aaon black	3.89:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #ce461c as the text (4.52:1) AAA: use #e87754 as the text (7.2:1) AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.53:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bc401a 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

171717 737373 c2410c ffffff

Gallery

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Near-monochrome with one burnt-orange highlight — an art director's default because it never competes with the work.

Editorial Minimal Light

c2410c 365314 fbbf24 f4efe6 1f1a12

Trailhead

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Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.

Warm Bold VividOutdoors

Fonts for this mood

#bc401a 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 #bc401a

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 #bc401a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bc401a-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md