Color

#ea971a

#ea971a
hex#ea971a
rgbrgb(234, 151, 26)
hslhsl(36, 83%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.743 0.156 69.3)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.397

Colors that go with #ea971a

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.

Real palettes that use #ea971a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1a6dea

#ea2f1a · #d5ea1a

#1aea97 · #971aea

Split-complementary

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#1ad5ea · #2f1aea

#1aea2f · #1a6dea · #ea1ad5

Contrast

#ea971a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.35:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a3680f as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #794d0b as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.94:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ea971a 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

#ea971a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ea971a
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 #ea971a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ea971a-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md