Color

#f07942

#f07942
hex#f07942
rgbrgb(240, 121, 66)
hslhsl(19, 85%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.162 43.8)
Closest name: Apocalyptic Orange (#f4711e)Relative luminance 0.3259

Colors that go with #f07942

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Light Sea Green 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

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#42b9f0

#f04262 · #f0d042

#42f079 · #7942f0

Split-complementary

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#42f0d0 · #4262f0

#62f042 · #42b9f0 · #d042f0

Contrast

#f07942 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #cb4b10 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #97380c as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.52:1passpasspassPasses 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 #f07942 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

#f07942 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #f07942
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 #f07942 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f07942-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md