Maple
Open in tool →The three colours a maple goes through in October, on a warm white — loud, seasonal, and readable because the type is near-black.
Color
#e6700a
#e6700a
hex
#e6700argb
rgb(230, 112, 10)hsl
hsl(28, 92%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.673 0.173 51.1)Closest name: Apocalyptic Orange (#f4711e)Relative luminance 0.2843
Colors that go with #e6700a
Charcoal, Cornflower 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 #e6700a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #e6700a 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 #e6700a in 5 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #e6700a, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #e6700a in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e6700a: 6 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #e6700a in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Cider, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #e6700a: 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Cursor's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e6700a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e6700a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.14:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.69:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #e6700a as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#e6700a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e6700a
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 #e6700a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e6700a-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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