Color

#e87517

#e87517
hex#e87517
rgbrgb(232, 117, 23)
hslhsl(27, 82%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.169 51.9)
Closest name: Apocalyptic Orange (#f4711e)Relative luminance 0.2994

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#178ae8

#e81721 · #e8de17

#17e875 · #7517e8

Split-complementary

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#17e8de · #1721e8

#21e817 · #178ae8 · #de17e8

Contrast

#e87517 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b55b12 as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #8b460e as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.99:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #e9781c as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #e87517 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

#e87517 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e87517
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #e87517 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e87517-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md