Color

#e04406

#e04406
hex#e04406
rgbrgb(224, 68, 6)
hslhsl(17, 95%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.607 0.201 36.9)
Closest name: Baptism by Fire (#e6490b)Relative luminance 0.1999

Colors that go with #e04406

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

Open in tool →

#06a2e0

#e00635 · #e0b106

#06e044 · #4406e0

Split-complementary

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#06e0b1 · #0635e0

#35e006 · #06a2e0 · #b106e0

Contrast

#e04406 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.2:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d64105 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #9f3004 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #fa682e as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #e04406 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

#e04406 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e04406
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 #e04406 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e04406-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md