Color

#ec790e

#ec790e
hex#ec790e
rgbrgb(236, 121, 14)
hslhsl(29, 89%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.695 0.172 53.6)
Closest name: Apocalyptic Orange (#f4711e)Relative luminance 0.3154

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0e81ec

#ec0e11 · #ece80e

#0eec79 · #790eec

Split-complementary

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#0eece8 · #0e11ec

#11ec0e · #0e81ec · #e80eec

Contrast

#ec790e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b75e0b as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #874508 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec790e 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

#ec790e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec790e
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 #ec790e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec790e-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md