Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Color
#ec5e36
#ec5e36
hex
#ec5e36rgb
rgb(236, 94, 54)hsl
hsl(13, 83%, 57%)oklch
oklch(0.659 0.184 36.3)Closest name: Basketball (#ee6730)Relative luminance 0.261
Colors that go with #ec5e36
Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #ec5e36 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ec5e36: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ec5e36 in 7 real palettes, including Ember and Heatwave, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #ec5e36, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ec5e36 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ec5e36 in 6 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ec5e36: 10 real palettes, including PlanetScale's brand system and Strava's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #ec5e36: 9 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Replit's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ec5e36
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ec5e36 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.38:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.22:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ec5e36 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
#ec5e36 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec5e36
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ec5e36 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ec5e36-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md