Color

#ef951f

#ef951f
hex#ef951f
rgbrgb(239, 149, 31)
hslhsl(34, 87%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.746 0.159 65.8)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.3994

Colors that go with #ef951f

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 #ef951f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1f79ef

#ef2d1f · #e2ef1f

#1fef95 · #951fef

Split-complementary

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#1fe2ef · #2d1fef

#1fef2d · #1f79ef · #ef1fe2

Contrast

#ef951f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ac660c as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #814d09 as the text (7:1)
  • 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 #ef951f 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

#ef951f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ef951f
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 #ef951f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ef951f-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md