Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Color
#f85e16
#f85e16
hex
#f85e16rgb
rgb(248, 94, 22)hsl
hsl(19, 94%, 53%)oklch
oklch(0.676 0.202 40.5)Closest name: Basketball (#ee6730)Relative luminance 0.2802
Colors that go with #f85e16
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 #f85e16 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 #f85e16: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f85e16 in 8 real palettes, including Ember and Heatwave, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Glossier's brand system put Blue beside #f85e16, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #f85e16 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #f85e16: 4 real palettes, including Tide's brand system and NASA's brand system, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #f85e16: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #f85e16 in 8 real palettes, including Pizza Hut's brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f85e16
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f85e16 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.18:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.6:1 | 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 #f85e16 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Replitprimary · #f26207 · Δ1.394
- Cloudflaresecondary · #ff5e1f · Δ1.399
- dbt Labsprimary · #fc6304 · Δ1.438
- Etsyprimary · #f1641e · Δ1.46
- PlanetScaleprimary · #f35815 · Δ1.558
- PlanetScalesecondary · #f35815 · Δ1.558
- Intercomsecondary · #ff5600 · Δ1.569
- Prepare your taste buds...primary · #fc5404 · Δ1.589
- Stravaprimary · #fc5404 · Δ1.589
- Substackprimary · #fc5404 · Δ1.589
- Soundcloudsecondary · #ff5500 · Δ1.668
- Harley-Davidsonsecondary · #fa6600 · Δ1.818
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#f85e16 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f85e16
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 #f85e16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f85e16-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-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