Set brand colors that keep lesson text readable

A brand operations lead at a fitness franchise is rolling the new palette into training. The tokens are approved, but the first attempt turned quiz feedback into orange text on an orange button. She needs headings, buttons and emphasis to follow the palette, lesson text to stay readable, and contrast checked before 300 franchise employees see it.

Headings, buttons and emphasis use the brand palette while lesson text remains legible.

• The lead enters the approved tokens and the light and dark usage rules into Company Knowledge as the brand profile.
• Elvina applies the palette to headings, buttons and emphasis across the selected lessons and measures contrast for each actual text and background pairing.
• She reviews the contrast report, which flags the orange-on-orange quiz feedback and one caption on a photo.
• She assigns a darker token to the feedback text, confirms that correct and incorrect states also use icons and words, and publishes the theme.

A fictional franchisor, Ironclad Fitness Studios, has 12 approved tokens including Ember Orange, Slate, Chalk and Signal Green. The theme is applied to a 5-lesson front desk course. The rule says Ember Orange is for buttons and headings only, never for body text.

• Headings and primary buttons use Ember Orange; body text stays Slate on Chalk.
• Quiz feedback moved to Slate text with an icon and the word Correct or Incorrect, so color is no longer the only signal.
• The dark mode variant passed the contrast report after the caption token was swapped.

Measure contrast for actual combinations. Do not encode correct answers or status by color alone.

• Every text and background pairing in the lessons meets the contrast level your accessibility policy requires.
• No correct answer, status or warning is conveyed by color alone.
• The palette follows the written usage rules, including what each token may and may not be used for.
• Light and dark modes were both viewed on real lesson content, not only on a swatch page.

Elvina applies tokens and measures contrast; it does not decide your accessibility standard or approve exceptions. A palette that passes on one slide can fail on a photo caption, so the report covers actual combinations, not theory. The brand lead confirms the theme on real screens before it reaches franchise learners.