Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Color
#f85616
#f85616
hex
#f85616rgb
rgb(248, 86, 22)hsl
hsl(17, 94%, 53%)oklch
oklch(0.666 0.208 38.2)Closest name: orangered (#ff4500)Relative luminance 0.2667
Colors that go with #f85616
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Dodger 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #f85616 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 #f85616: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
split-complementshippedDodger Blue is a split-complement of #f85616: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f85616 in 9 real palettes, including Heatwave and Ember, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Glossier's brand system put Blue beside #f85616, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #f85616: 4 real palettes, including Tide's brand system and NASA's brand system, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #f85616 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f85616 in 9 real palettes, including Pizza Hut's brand system and Redfin's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f85616
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f85616 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.32:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.33:1 | 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 #f85616 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Prepare your taste buds...primary · #fc5404 · Δ0.788
- Stravaprimary · #fc5404 · Δ0.788
- Substackprimary · #fc5404 · Δ0.788
- PlanetScaleprimary · #f35815 · Δ0.94
- PlanetScalesecondary · #f35815 · Δ0.94
- Soundcloudsecondary · #ff5500 · Δ1.337
- Readymagaccent · #ff5000 · Δ1.38
- Intercomsecondary · #ff5600 · Δ1.385
- Tideaccent · #fb4c06 · Δ1.448
- Together AIprimary · #fc4c02 · Δ1.47
- Cursorprimary · #f54e00 · Δ1.506
- Cursorsecondary · #f54e00 · Δ1.506
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f85616 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f85616
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 #f85616 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f85616-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?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