Named color

Bittersweet

#fea051

hex#fea051

rgbrgb(254, 160, 81)

hslhsl(27, 99%, 66%)

oklchoklch(0.787 0.146 58.2)

Relative luminance 0.4681

Warm Vivid Playful Bold

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Bittersweet on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

fea862 feb171 febc85 fec494 ffcda4 ffd5b3 ffddc2 ffe9d6 fff1e6 fff9f5

Shades — toward black

fe8f34 fe7e16 ef6c01 d05e01 b25001 934301 753501 512500 331700 140900

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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fea051 52b1fe

#52b1fe

Analogous

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fea051 fe525b fef652

#fe525b · #fef652

Triadic

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fea051 52fea0 a052fe

#52fea0 · #a052fe

Split-complementary

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fea051 52fef6 525bfe

#52fef6 · #525bfe

Tetradic

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fea051 5bfe52 52b1fe f652fe

#5bfe52 · #52b1fe · #f652fe

Contrast

Bittersweet as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.03:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #c15701 as the text (4.53:1) AAA: use #8e4001 as the text (7.28:1) AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.58:1) AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.18:1)
Aaon black	10.36:1	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 Bittersweet 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

e63946 457b9d f4a261 fff4e0 23201c

Retro Pop

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Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.

Playful Bold Warm

Fonts for this mood

Bittersweet 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 Bittersweet

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 #fea051 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fea051-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md