Color

#d35017

#d35017
hex#d35017
rgbrgb(211, 80, 23)
hslhsl(18, 80%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.6 0.177 40.2)
Closest name: Baptism by Fire (#e6490b)Relative luminance 0.1965

Colors that go with #d35017

Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#179bd3

#d3173d · #d3ae17

#17d350 · #5017d3

Split-complementary

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#17d3ae · #173dd3

#3dd317 · #179bd3 · #ae17d3

Contrast

#d35017 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ca4c16 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #973911 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (4.56:1)
Aaon black
4.93:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ea7543 as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #d35017 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

Fonts for this mood

#d35017 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #d35017
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #d35017 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/d35017-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md