#ffc400 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	1.6:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #947100 as the text (4.54:1) AAA: use #6b5200 as the text (7.42:1) AA: or shift the background to #575757 (4.52:1) AAA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (7.01:1)
Aaon black	13.15:1	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 #ffc400 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

e11d48 111111 facc15 ffffff

Tabloid

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

Editorial Bold Vivid

38bdf8 818cf8 fbbf24 0f172a e2e8f0

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

c2410c 365314 fbbf24 f4efe6 1f1a12

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

Fonts for this mood

#ffc400 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 #ffc400

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 #ffc400 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffc400-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md