#fa6a42 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.91:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #db3406 as the text (4.66:1) AAA: use #a92804 as the text (7.02:1) AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.53:1) AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.08:1)
Aaon black	7.21:1	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 #fa6a42 as the background.

Brands using this color

Postmanprimary · #fc6c34 · Δ1.373

Palettes built around it

ff6b35 ffd166 06d6a0 ffffff 1f1f1f

Fresh Juice

Open in tool →

Orange, mango and mint — a sugar rush; keep the type black so it stays legible under all that color.

Playful Vivid LightFood

Fonts for this mood

#fa6a42 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 #fa6a42

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 #fa6a42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fa6a42-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md