Color

#e05f42

#e05f42
hex#e05f42
rgbrgb(224, 95, 66)
hslhsl(11, 72%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.644 0.168 34.1)
Closest name: Blazing (#e94e41)Relative luminance 0.2443

Colors that go with #e05f42

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber 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 →

#42c3e0

#e04274 · #e0ae42

#42e05f · #5f42e0

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#42e0ae · #4274e0

#74e042 · #42c3e0 · #ae42e0

Contrast

#e05f42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.57:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d34322 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #9e321a as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.89:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #e5765d 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 #e05f42 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

#e05f42 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e05f42
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 #e05f42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e05f42-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md