#faf261 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	1.17:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #7c7604 as the text (4.72:1) AAA: use #5e5903 as the text (7.23:1) AA: or shift the background to #6b6b6b (4.55:1) AAA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (7.22:1)
Aaon black	17.94:1	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 #faf261 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

ff5e5b 00cecb ffed66 ffffff 222222

Crayon Box

Open in tool →

Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.

Playful Vivid FriendlyKids

Fonts for this mood

#faf261 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 #faf261

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 #faf261 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/faf261-bcbea2-4e9bdf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md