Color

#eb8a14

#eb8a14
hex#eb8a14
rgbrgb(235, 138, 20)
hslhsl(33, 84%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.722 0.162 62.1)
Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3589

Colors that go with #eb8a14

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1475eb

#eb1f14 · #e0eb14

#14eb8a · #8a14eb

Split-complementary

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#14e0eb · #1f14eb

#14eb1f · #1475eb · #eb14e0

Contrast

#eb8a14 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a9640f as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #7f4b0b as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
8.18:1passpasspassPasses 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 #eb8a14 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

#eb8a14 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #eb8a14
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 #eb8a14 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/eb8a14-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md