Color

#ec540e

#ec540e
hex#ec540e
rgbrgb(236, 84, 14)
hslhsl(19, 89%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.645 0.199 39.5)
Closest name: Baptism by Fire (#e6490b)Relative luminance 0.2421

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0ea6ec

#ec0e37 · #ecc30e

#0eec54 · #540eec

Split-complementary

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#0eecc3 · #0e37ec

#37ec0e · #0ea6ec · #c30eec

Contrast

#ec540e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.6:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #cf4a0c as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #9a3709 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (4.58:1)
Aaon black
5.84:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #f36e30 as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ec540e as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ec540e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec540e
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 #ec540e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec540e-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md