#dcb228 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.01:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8c7117 as the text (4.68:1) AAA: use #695511 as the text (7.22:1) AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.62:1) AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.04:1)
Aaon black	10.44:1	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 #dcb228 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

Open in tool →

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

Dark Luxury BoldBeauty

Fonts for this mood

#dcb228 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 #dcb228

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 #dcb228 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dcb228-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md