#c8a60e as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.36:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8a730a as the text (4.63:1) AAA: use #695707 as the text (7.08:1) AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.61:1) AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.24:1)
Aaon black	8.92:1	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 #c8a60e 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

c9a227 7c8aa5 34d399 0c1222 e8edf5

Ledger Dark

Open in tool →

Gold on midnight is the private-banking cue; the mint accent keeps it from feeling old-money stuffy.

Dark Luxury TechnicalFintech

Fonts for this mood

#c8a60e 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 #c8a60e

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 #c8a60e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8a60e-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md