#ffd261 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	1.43:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #996e00 as the text (4.58:1) AAA: use #705000 as the text (7.4:1) AA: or shift the background to #5e5e5e (4.52:1) AAA: or shift the background to #424242 (7.01:1)
Aaon black	14.64:1	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 #ffd261 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

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

#ffd261 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 #ffd261

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 #ffd261 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffd261-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md