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
#e76e27
#e76e27
hex
#e76e27rgb
rgb(231, 110, 39)hsl
hsl(22, 80%, 53%)oklch
oklch(0.673 0.17 46.6)Closest name: Basketball (#ee6730)Relative luminance 0.2829
Colors that go with #e76e27
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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #e76e27 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #e76e27: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #e76e27 in 5 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #e76e27, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #e76e27 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #e76e27, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #e76e27 in 4 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #e76e27 in 5 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Cider, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e76e27
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e76e27 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.15:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.66:1 | 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 #e76e27 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#e76e27 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e76e27
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 #e76e27 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e76e27-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-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