Color

#ed8b40

#ed8b40
hex#ed8b40
rgbrgb(237, 139, 64)
hslhsl(26, 83%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.729 0.148 54.9)
Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3684

Colors that go with #ed8b40

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#40a2ed

#ed404b · #ede240

#40ed8b · #8b40ed

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#40ede2 · #404bed

#4bed40 · #40a2ed · #e240ed

Contrast

#ed8b40 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #bb5b11 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #8c440d as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.37:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ed8b40 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ed8b40 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ed8b40
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 #ed8b40 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ed8b40-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md