Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Color
#f9591a
#f9591a
hex
#f9591argb
rgb(249, 89, 26)hsl
hsl(17, 95%, 54%)oklch
oklch(0.671 0.206 38.5)Closest name: Basketball (#ee6730)Relative luminance 0.2736
Colors that go with #f9591a
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 #f9591a 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 #f9591a: 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 #f9591a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f9591a 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 #f9591a, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #f9591a: 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 #f9591a — 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 #f9591a in 9 real palettes, including Pizza Hut's brand system and Redfin's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #f9591a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f9591a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.24:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.47:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #f9591a as the background.
Brands using this color
- Prepare your taste buds...primary · #fc5404 · Δ0.884
- Stravaprimary · #fc5404 · Δ0.884
- Substackprimary · #fc5404 · Δ0.884
- Intercomsecondary · #ff5600 · Δ1.177
- Soundcloudsecondary · #ff5500 · Δ1.19
- PlanetScaleprimary · #f35815 · Δ1.208
- PlanetScalesecondary · #f35815 · Δ1.208
- Readymagaccent · #ff5000 · Δ1.522
- Cloudflaresecondary · #ff5e1f · Δ1.555
- Together AIprimary · #fc4c02 · Δ1.887
- Tideaccent · #fb4c06 · Δ1.904
Palettes built around it
Night Market
Open in tool →Orange, magenta and yellow neon on aubergine-black — the street-sign palette for food, nightlife and events.
Heatwave
Open in tool →Blaze orange and hot yellow with one cold blue — the high-noon palette; use the blue where the eye needs to rest.
Fonts for this mood
#f9591a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f9591a
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 #f9591a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f9591a-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