Color

#f8a920

#f8a920
hex#f8a920
rgbrgb(248, 169, 32)
hslhsl(38, 94%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.792 0.161 73.8)
Closest name: orange (#ffa500)Relative luminance 0.4844

Colors that go with #f8a920

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#206ff8

#f83d20 · #dbf820

#20f8a9 · #a920f8

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#20dbf8 · #3d20f8

#20f83d · #206ff8 · #f820db

Contrast

#f8a920 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a36905 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #774d04 as the text (7.37:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.21:1)
Aaon black
10.69:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #f8a920 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#f8a920 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #f8a920
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #f8a920 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/f8a920-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md