Color

#ea972a

#ea972a
hex#ea972a
rgbrgb(234, 151, 42)
hslhsl(34, 82%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.744 0.151 67.5)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.3979

Colors that go with #ea972a

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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 #ea972a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2a7dea

#ea362a · #ddea2a

#2aea97 · #972aea

Split-complementary

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#2addea · #362aea

#2aea36 · #2a7dea · #ea2add

Contrast

#ea972a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a76611 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #7d4c0c as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.96:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ea972a 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

#ea972a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ea972a
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 #ea972a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ea972a-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md