Color

#e53e06

#e53e06
hex#e53e06
rgbrgb(229, 62, 6)
hslhsl(15, 95%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.61 0.21 35.2)
Closest name: Baptism by Fire (#e6490b)Relative luminance 0.2012

Colors that go with #e53e06

Charcoal, Amber and Cadet 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 →

#06ade5

#e5063e · #e5ad06

#06e53e · #3e06e5

Split-complementary

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#06e5ad · #063ee5

#3ee506 · #06ade5 · #ad06e5

Contrast

#e53e06 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.18:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #db3b06 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #a42c04 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (4.59:1)
Aaon black
5.02:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #fa6938 as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #e53e06 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

#e53e06 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e53e06
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 #e53e06 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e53e06-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md