Color

#e78940

#e78940
hex#e78940
rgbrgb(231, 137, 64)
hslhsl(26, 78%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.718 0.144 55.4)
Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3525

Colors that go with #e78940

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#409fe7

#e7404c · #e7dc40

#40e789 · #8940e7

Split-complementary

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#40e7dc · #404ce7

#4ce740 · #409fe7 · #dc40e7

Contrast

#e78940 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b65b16 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #884511 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e78940 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

#e78940 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e78940
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 #e78940 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e78940-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md