Electric Lime
Open in tool →One neon on white with black type — lime-and-black is the neon that works in daylight; the orange is a second gear.
Color
#f8380d
#f8380d
hex
#f8380drgb
rgb(248, 56, 13)hsl
hsl(11, 94%, 51%)oklch
oklch(0.638 0.231 32.8)Closest name: Arcade Fire (#ee3311)Relative luminance 0.2281
Colors that go with #f8380d
Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #f8380d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #f8380d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f8380d in 5 real palettes, including Heatwave and Wired's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #f8380d in 8 real palettes, including Glossier's brand system and Pepsi's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #f8380d in 10 real palettes, including ElevenLabs's brand system and Strava's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #f8380d in 6 real palettes, including Databricks's brand system and Figma's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedFirebrick is paired with #f8380d in 4 real palettes, including Ember and Nintendo's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #f8380d in 8 real palettes, including Streetwear and Paddle's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #f8380d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f8380d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.78:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.56:1 | 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 #f8380d as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f8380d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f8380d
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 #f8380d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f8380d-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