Color

#ec490e

#ec490e
hex#ec490e
rgbrgb(236, 73, 14)
hslhsl(16, 89%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.632 0.208 36.6)
Closest name: Baptism by Fire (#e6490b)Relative luminance 0.2263

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0eb1ec

#ec0e42 · #ecb80e

#0eec49 · #490eec

Split-complementary

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#0eecb8 · #0e42ec

#42ec0e · #0eb1ec · #b80eec

Contrast

#ec490e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.8:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #d4420c as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #9f3109 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.58:1)
Aaon black
5.53:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #f46f3e as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ec490e as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#ec490e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec490e
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 #ec490e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec490e-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md