Playground
Open in tool →Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.
CSS color
darkorange
#ff8c00
hex
#ff8c00rgb
rgb(255, 140, 0)hsl
hsl(33, 100%, 50%)oklch
oklch(0.751 0.179 58.3)Relative luminance 0.4002
Darkorange 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 2 public brands that use it and the palettes it appears in.
Colors that go with darkorange
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for darkorange: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of darkorange: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite darkorange on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with darkorange in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Maple, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside darkorange, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with darkorange in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Forest Floor put Champagne beside darkorange, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with darkorange: 12 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Real palettes that use darkorange
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| darkorange as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.33:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9:1 | 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 darkorange as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
darkorange reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around darkorange
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ff8c00 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ff8c00-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md