#f9be3e as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	1.69:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #996a05 as the text (4.75:1) AAA: use #775204 as the text (7.02:1) AA: or shift the background to #525252 (4.64:1) AAA: or shift the background to #363636 (7.17:1)
Aaon black	12.46:1	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 #f9be3e as the background.

Brands using this color

Lemon Squeezyprimary · #fcc434 · Δ1.813

Palettes built around it

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Blueprint

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Cyan and indigo on navy is the developer-tool look; amber is the only warm note, so it always reads as 'attention'.

Technical Cool Modern Dark

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Trailhead

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Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.

Warm Bold VividOutdoors

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Ember

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Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.

Bold Dark Warm

Fonts for this mood

#f9be3e 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 #f9be3e

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 #f9be3e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f9be3e-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md