Maple
Open in tool →The three colours a maple goes through in October, on a warm white — loud, seasonal, and readable because the type is near-black.
Color
#ed7226
#ed7226
hex
#ed7226rgb
rgb(237, 114, 38)hsl
hsl(23, 85%, 54%)oklch
oklch(0.687 0.173 47.4)Closest name: Apocalyptic Orange (#f4711e)Relative luminance 0.3018
Colors that go with #ed7226
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #ed7226 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ed7226: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ed7226 in 6 real palettes, including Maple and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #ed7226, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ed7226 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ed7226 in 6 real palettes, including Burger King's brand system and Pizza Hut's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ed7226 in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Cider, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #ed7226: 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Cursor's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ed7226
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ed7226 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.98:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.04:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #ed7226 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ed7226 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ed7226
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ed7226 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ed7226-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md