Color

#ec8a09

#ec8a09
hex#ec8a09
rgbrgb(236, 138, 9)
hslhsl(34, 93%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.723 0.164 62.4)
Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3603

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#096bec

#ec1809 · #ddec09

#09ec8a · #8a09ec

Split-complementary

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#09ddec · #1809ec

#09ec18 · #096bec · #ec09dd

Contrast

#ec8a09 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ac6406 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #804b05 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec8a09 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

#ec8a09 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec8a09
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 #ec8a09 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec8a09-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md