darkorange as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.33:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #b36200 as the text (4.5:1) AAA: use #854900 as the text (7.12:1) AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.66:1) AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.07:1)
Aaon black	9:1	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 darkorange as the background.

Brands using this color

PayPalaccent · #ff9100 · Δ1.115

Palettes built around it

ff8c00 3b82f6 22c55e fff8e7 1d1d1d

Playground

Open in tool →

Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.

Bold Playful WarmKids

Fonts for this mood

darkorange 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 darkorange

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 #ff8c00 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff8c00-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md