#f8a116 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.08:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #a36705 as the text (4.67:1) AAA: use #7c4e04 as the text (7.12:1) AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.61:1) AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.28:1)
Aaon black	10.1:1	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 #f8a116 as the background.

Brands using this color

PostHogaccent · #f7a501 · Δ1.146

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

#f8a116 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 #f8a116

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 #f8a116 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f8a116-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md