Color

#ef940b

#ef940b
hex#ef940b
rgbrgb(239, 148, 11)
hslhsl(36, 91%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.744 0.163 66.7)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.3955

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0b66ef

#ef220b · #d8ef0b

#0bef94 · #940bef

Split-complementary

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#0bd8ef · #220bef

#0bef22 · #0b66ef · #ef0bd8

Contrast

#ef940b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a66608 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #7f4e06 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.23:1)
Aaon black
8.91:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ef940b 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

#ef940b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ef940b
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 #ef940b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ef940b-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md