Electric Lime
Open in tool →One neon on white with black type — lime-and-black is the neon that works in daylight; the orange is a second gear.
Color
#fa4205
#fa4205
hex
#fa4205rgb
rgb(250, 66, 5)hsl
hsl(15, 96%, 50%)oklch
oklch(0.649 0.227 34.8)Closest name: orangered (#ff4500)Relative luminance 0.2423
Colors that go with #fa4205
Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #fa4205: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #fa4205 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #fa4205 in 7 real palettes, including Glossier's brand system and Readymag's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #fa4205 in 6 real palettes, including Strava's brand system and PlanetScale's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #fa4205 in 4 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Heatwave, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #fa4205 in 7 real palettes, including Streetwear and Paddle's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #fa4205 in 5 real palettes, including Diner and Crayon Box, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fa4205
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fa4205 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.59:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.85:1 | 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 #fa4205 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Glossiersecondary · #f94200 · Δ0.234
- Redditsecondary · #fc4301 · Δ0.454
- Brexsecondary · #ff3d00 · Δ0.976
- Redditprimary · #ff4500 · Δ1.153
- HubSpotsecondary · #ff4800 · Δ1.442
- Tideaccent · #fb4c06 · Δ1.469
- Together AIprimary · #fc4c02 · Δ1.576
- Cursorprimary · #f54e00 · Δ1.809
- Cursorsecondary · #f54e00 · Δ1.809
- Figmaprimary · #f24e1e · Δ1.893
- FigmalogoRed · #f24e1e · Δ1.893
- Rotten Tomatoesaccent · #fa320a · Δ1.934
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fa4205 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa4205
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 #fa4205 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fa4205-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-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