Color

#ec9704

#ec9704
hex#ec9704
rgbrgb(236, 151, 4)
hslhsl(38, 97%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.161 69.8)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.3997

Colors that go with #ec9704

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #ec9704

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#0459ec

#ec2304 · #cdec04

#04ec97 · #9704ec

Split-complementary

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#04cdec · #2304ec

#04ec23 · #0459ec · #ec04cd

Contrast

#ec9704 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a16702 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #794d02 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ec9704 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

#ec9704 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ec9704
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ec9704 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ec9704-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md