Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Color
#f85a20
#f85a20
hex
#f85a20rgb
rgb(248, 90, 32)hsl
hsl(16, 94%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.671 0.204 38.2)Closest name: Basketball (#ee6730)Relative luminance 0.2737
Colors that go with #f85a20
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 #f85a20 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 #f85a20: 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 #f85a20: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f85a20 in 6 real palettes, including Ember and Heatwave, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Glossier's brand system put Blue beside #f85a20, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f85a20 in 6 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Wise's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #f85a20: 10 real palettes, including Strava's brand system and PlanetScale's brand system, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #f85a20: 5 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f85a20
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f85a20 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.24:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.47:1 | 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 #f85a20 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Prepare your taste buds...primary · #fc5404 · Δ1.153
- Stravaprimary · #fc5404 · Δ1.153
- Substackprimary · #fc5404 · Δ1.153
- PlanetScaleprimary · #f35815 · Δ1.167
- PlanetScalesecondary · #f35815 · Δ1.167
- Intercomsecondary · #ff5600 · Δ1.44
- Soundcloudsecondary · #ff5500 · Δ1.456
- Cloudflaresecondary · #ff5e1f · Δ1.62
- Readymagaccent · #ff5000 · Δ1.757
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f85a20 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f85a20
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 #f85a20 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f85a20-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-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