#fad42e as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	1.45:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8b7204 as the text (4.66:1) AAA: use #685603 as the text (7.19:1) AA: or shift the background to #5c5c5c (4.62:1) AAA: or shift the background to #404040 (7.17:1)
Aaon black	14.52:1	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 #fad42e as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

e11d48 111111 facc15 ffffff

Tabloid

Open in tool →

Red, black and yellow on white is the loudest three-color system in print — use it when headlines are the product.

Editorial Bold Vivid

Fonts for this mood

#fad42e 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 #fad42e

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 #fad42e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fad42e-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md