Color

#ec840e

#ec840e
hex#ec840e
rgbrgb(236, 132, 14)
hslhsl(32, 89%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.713 0.166 59)
Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3437

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0e76ec

#ec150e · #e5ec0e

#0eec84 · #840eec

Split-complementary

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#0ee5ec · #150eec

#0eec15 · #0e76ec · #ec0ee5

Contrast

#ec840e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ae610a as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #824908 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec840e as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#ec840e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec840e
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 #ec840e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec840e-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md