#c8b265 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.1:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #877431 as the text (4.59:1) AAA: use #655724 as the text (7.14:1) AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.57:1) AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.22:1)
Aaon black	10.01:1	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 #c8b265 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

cbb26a 8b83a8 b8b8c8 0a0a12 efe9dd

Midnight Luxe

Open in tool →

Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.

Luxury Dark Elegant

Fonts for this mood

#c8b265 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c8b265

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 #c8b265 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c8b265-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md