#dc8a38 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.71:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #a9631e as the text (4.68:1) AAA: use #7e4a16 as the text (7.3:1) AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.65:1) AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.06:1)
Aaon black	7.74:1	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 #dc8a38 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

1f4d3a 8aa39b d98c3f f7f7f4 1c2321

Paper & Pine

Open in tool →

Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.

Minimal Cool Clean Muted

Fonts for this mood

#dc8a38 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 #dc8a38

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 #dc8a38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dc8a38-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md