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
#fa420f
#fa420f
hex
#fa420frgb
rgb(250, 66, 15)hsl
hsl(13, 96%, 52%)oklch
oklch(0.649 0.226 34.2)Closest name: orangered (#ff4500)Relative luminance 0.2425
Colors that go with #fa420f
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 #fa420f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #fa420f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #fa420f in 7 real palettes, including Heatwave and Google's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped8 real palettes, including Glossier's brand system and Doordash's brand system put Blue beside #fa420f, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #fa420f: 5 real palettes, including NASA's brand system and Tide's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fa420f: 14 real palettes, including Strava's brand system and PlanetScale's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #fa420f: 7 real palettes, including Databricks's brand system and Figma's brand system, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #fa420f: 8 real palettes, including Ember and 3M's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #fa420f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fa420f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.59:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.85:1 | 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 #fa420f as the background.
Brands using this color
- Glossiersecondary · #f94200 · Δ0.426
- Redditsecondary · #fc4301 · Δ0.565
- Brexsecondary · #ff3d00 · Δ0.964
- NASAsecondary · #fc3d21 · Δ1.178
- Redditprimary · #ff4500 · Δ1.214
- HubSpotsecondary · #ff4800 · Δ1.513
- Tideaccent · #fb4c06 · Δ1.559
- Together AIprimary · #fc4c02 · Δ1.671
- Rotten Tomatoesaccent · #fa320a · Δ1.852
- Databricksprimary · #fc341c · Δ1.861
- Figmaprimary · #f24e1e · Δ1.891
- FigmalogoRed · #f24e1e · Δ1.891
- Neonaccent · #ff3621 · Δ1.918
- Cursorprimary · #f54e00 · Δ1.928
- Cursorsecondary · #f54e00 · Δ1.928
- Doordashprimary · #ff3008 · Δ1.955
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fa420f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa420f
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 #fa420f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fa420f-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-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