Color

#de8912

#de8912
hex#de8912
rgbrgb(222, 137, 18)
hslhsl(35, 85%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.153 66.1)
Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3346

Colors that go with #de8912

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and 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.

Real palettes that use #de8912

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1267de

#de2312 · #cdde12

#12de89 · #8912de

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#12cdde · #2312de

#12de23 · #1267de · #de12cd

Contrast

#de8912 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a5660d as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #7b4c0a as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #de8912 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#de8912 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #de8912
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 #de8912 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/de8912-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md