#de480d as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	4.17:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #d4450c as the text (4.51:1) AAA: use #9f3409 as the text (7.07:1) AA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (4.6:1)
Aaon black	5.04:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #f36e39 as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #de480d as the background.

Brands using this color

Postmansecondary · #e05320 · Δ1.951

Palettes built around it

d9480f 5c7c2f f2b134 fffbf0 2b1d0e

Farmers Market

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Tomato, leaf and honey — the three colors of a produce stand, warm enough to make anything look fresh.

Warm Friendly VividFood

Fonts for this mood

#de480d 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 #de480d

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 #de480d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/de480d-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md