#ef9d2a as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.2:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #a6660c as the text (4.64:1) AAA: use #7b4c09 as the text (7.29:1) AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.56:1) AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.04:1)
Aaon black	9.53:1	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 #ef9d2a 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

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Graphite

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A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.

Technical Muted Dark Modern

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Mint Modern

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Emerald as a primary rather than a success color, anchored by deep teal text — fresh, friendly, and fintech-adjacent.

Modern Clean FriendlyFintech

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Campus

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Institutional blue with a highlighter-amber accent — trustworthy for parents, lively enough for students.

Friendly Cool CleanEducation

Fonts for this mood

#ef9d2a 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 #ef9d2a

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 #ef9d2a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ef9d2a-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md