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
#ea6c06
#ea6c06
hex
#ea6c06rgb
rgb(234, 108, 6)hsl
hsl(27, 95%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.673 0.179 48.8)Closest name: Apocalyptic Orange (#f4711e)Relative luminance 0.2823
Colors that go with #ea6c06
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 #ea6c06 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 #ea6c06: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ea6c06 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #ea6c06 in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Cider, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #ea6c06 in 6 real palettes, including PlanetScale's brand system and Postman's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #ea6c06 in 6 real palettes, including Replit's brand system and Readymag's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #ea6c06 in 4 real palettes, including Night Market and Streetwear, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ea6c06
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ea6c06 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.16:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.65:1 | 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 #ea6c06 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ea6c06 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ea6c06
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 #ea6c06 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ea6c06-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-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