#c42a1c as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	5.68:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #aa2418 as the text (7.06:1)
Aaon black	3.7:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #df3020 as the text (4.58:1) AAA: use #e97267 as the text (7.07:1) AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c42a1c 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

d4af37 8a8a8a c0392b 0d0d0d f5f5f5

Noir Beauty

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Black, gold and one deep red — the prestige cosmetics counter: all restraint and a single lipstick.

Dark Luxury BoldBeauty

Fonts for this mood

#c42a1c 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 #c42a1c

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 #c42a1c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c42a1c-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md