Color

#f08842

#f08842
hex#f08842
rgbrgb(240, 136, 66)
hslhsl(24, 85%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.728 0.152 51.8)
Closest name: À l’Orange (#f2850d)Relative luminance 0.3653

Colors that go with #f08842

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#42aaf0

#f04254 · #f0de42

#42f088 · #8842f0

Split-complementary

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#42f0de · #4254f0

#54f042 · #42aaf0 · #de42f0

Contrast

#f08842 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c15710 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #8e3f0b as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
8.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #f08842 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

#f08842 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #f08842
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 #f08842 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f08842-c4b19c-62cbc2-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md