Color

#ec7418

#ec7418
hex#ec7418
rgbrgb(236, 116, 24)
hslhsl(26, 85%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.688 0.173 50.4)
Closest name: Apocalyptic Orange (#f4711e)Relative luminance 0.3039

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1890ec

#ec1826 · #ecde18

#18ec74 · #7418ec

Split-complementary

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#18ecde · #1826ec

#26ec18 · #1890ec · #de18ec

Contrast

#ec7418 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #bd5a0f as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #8e440b as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec7418 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

#ec7418 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec7418
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 #ec7418 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec7418-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md