Color

#e3940d

#e3940d
hex#e3940d
rgbrgb(227, 148, 13)
hslhsl(38, 89%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.729 0.155 71.1)
Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3754

Colors that go with #e3940d

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.

Real palettes that use #e3940d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#0d5be3

#e32a0d · #c6e30d

#0de394 · #940de3

Split-complementary

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#0dc6e3 · #2a0de3

#0de32a · #0d5be3 · #e30dc6

Contrast

#e3940d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.47:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f6809 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #784f07 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e3940d 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

#e3940d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e3940d
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 #e3940d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e3940d-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md