Color

#ed992c

#ed992c
hex#ed992c
rgbrgb(237, 153, 44)
hslhsl(34, 84%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.751 0.152 67.3)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.4097

Colors that go with #ed992c

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 #ed992c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2c7fed

#ed392c · #e0ed2c

#2ced99 · #992ced

Split-complementary

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#2ce0ed · #392ced

#2ced39 · #2c7fed · #ed2ce0

Contrast

#ed992c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a9660f as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #7f4d0b as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
9.19:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ed992c 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

#ed992c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ed992c
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 #ed992c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ed992c-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md