Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Color
#e08f42
#e08f42
hex
#e08f42rgb
rgb(224, 143, 66)hsl
hsl(29, 72%, 57%)oklch
oklch(0.72 0.134 61.2)Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3589
Colors that go with #e08f42
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #e08f42: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #e08f42 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 #e08f42 in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Maple, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #e08f42, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #e08f42 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e08f42: 5 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #e08f42, as that palette's text colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #e08f42: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #e08f42
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e08f42 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.57:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.18:1 | 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 #e08f42 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
#e08f42 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e08f42
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 #e08f42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e08f42-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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