Color

#ec6e0e

#ec6e0e
hex#ec6e0e
rgbrgb(236, 110, 14)
hslhsl(26, 89%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.679 0.179 48.7)
Closest name: Apocalyptic Orange (#f4711e)Relative luminance 0.2902

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0e8cec

#ec0e1d · #ecdd0e

#0eec6e · #6e0eec

Split-complementary

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#0eecdd · #0e1dec

#1dec0e · #0e8cec · #dd0eec

Contrast

#ec6e0e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.09:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #bc580b as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #8c4108 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.8:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #f1700e as the text (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ec6e0e 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

#ec6e0e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec6e0e
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 #ec6e0e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec6e0e-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md