Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Color
#fa551e
#fa551e
hex
#fa551ergb
rgb(250, 85, 30)hsl
hsl(15, 96%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.669 0.21 36.9)Closest name: orangered (#ff4500)Relative luminance 0.2691
Colors that go with #fa551e
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 #fa551e 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 #fa551e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #fa551e in 6 real palettes, including Heatwave and Ember, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #fa551e in 7 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Glossier's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fa551e in 6 real palettes, including Wise's brand system and Redfin's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #fa551e in 10 real palettes, including Strava's brand system and Soundcloud's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #fa551e in 8 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Heatwave, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedFirebrick is paired with #fa551e in 4 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fa551e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fa551e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.29:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.38:1 | 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 #fa551e as the background.
Brands using this color
- Prepare your taste buds...primary · #fc5404 · Δ0.818
- Stravaprimary · #fc5404 · Δ0.818
- Substackprimary · #fc5404 · Δ0.818
- Readymagaccent · #ff5000 · Δ1.165
- Soundcloudsecondary · #ff5500 · Δ1.243
- Intercomsecondary · #ff5600 · Δ1.319
- Tideaccent · #fb4c06 · Δ1.328
- Together AIprimary · #fc4c02 · Δ1.329
- PlanetScaleprimary · #f35815 · Δ1.443
- PlanetScalesecondary · #f35815 · Δ1.443
- Cursorprimary · #f54e00 · Δ1.738
- Cursorsecondary · #f54e00 · Δ1.738
- HubSpotsecondary · #ff4800 · Δ1.842
- Cloudflaresecondary · #ff5e1f · Δ1.962
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fa551e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa551e
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 #fa551e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fa551e-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