Color

#ec8d18

#ec8d18
hex#ec8d18
rgbrgb(236, 141, 24)
hslhsl(33, 85%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.728 0.16 63)
Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3695

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1877ec

#ec2218 · #e2ec18

#18ec8d · #8d18ec

Split-complementary

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#18e2ec · #2218ec

#18ec22 · #1877ec · #ec18e2

Contrast

#ec8d18 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #aa640e as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #7f4b0a as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.39:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec8d18 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

#ec8d18 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec8d18
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 #ec8d18 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec8d18-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md