#dcc579 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	1.71:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8a7224 as the text (4.65:1) AAA: use #69571b as the text (7.05:1) AA: or shift the background to #525252 (4.58:1) AAA: or shift the background to #363636 (7.08:1)
Aaon black	12.31:1	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 #dcc579 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

e8c170 a8b5a0 f28e6b 1f2a24 f1ede4

Chalkboard

Open in tool →

Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.

Dark Muted WarmEducation

Fonts for this mood

#dcc579 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dcc579

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 #dcc579 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dcc579-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md