gold as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	1.4:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #8a7500 as the text (4.54:1) AAA: use #665700 as the text (7.17:1) AA: or shift the background to #5e5e5e (4.62:1) AAA: or shift the background to #424242 (7.17:1)
Aaon black	14.97:1	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 gold as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

gold 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 gold

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 #ffd700 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffd700-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md