Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Color
#f35835
#f35835
hex
#f35835rgb
rgb(243, 88, 53)hsl
hsl(11, 89%, 58%)oklch
oklch(0.663 0.197 34.2)Closest name: Angry Flamingo (#f04e45)Relative luminance 0.2629
Colors that go with #f35835
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #f35835 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #f35835: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f35835 in 7 real palettes, including Ember and Heatwave, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #f35835, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f35835 in 6 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Snyk's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f35835: 10 real palettes, including PlanetScale's brand system and Strava's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #f35835: 8 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Readymag's brand system, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #f35835: 5 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f35835
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f35835 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.36:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.26:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #f35835 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f35835 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f35835
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #f35835 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f35835-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md