Color

#e97516

#e97516
hex#e97516
rgbrgb(233, 117, 22)
hslhsl(27, 83%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.17 51.7)
Closest name: Apocalyptic Orange (#f4711e)Relative luminance 0.301

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#168ae9

#e91620 · #e9df16

#16e975 · #7516e9

Split-complementary

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#16e9df · #1620e9

#20e916 · #168ae9 · #df16e9

Contrast

#e97516 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.99:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b65b11 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #8c460d as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e97516 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

#e97516 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e97516
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 #e97516 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e97516-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md