Fresh Juice
Open in tool →Orange, mango and mint — a sugar rush; keep the type black so it stays legible under all that color.
Color
#fa6b2e
#fa6b2e
hex
#fa6b2ergb
rgb(250, 107, 46)hsl
hsl(18, 95%, 58%)oklch
oklch(0.697 0.189 41.2)Closest name: Apocalyptic Orange (#f4711e)Relative luminance 0.3104
Colors that go with #fa6b2e
Charcoal, Light Sea Green 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 #fa6b2e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #fa6b2e 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 #fa6b2e in 6 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #fa6b2e, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fa6b2e in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Kiln, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #fa6b2e: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #fa6b2e, as that palette's text colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #fa6b2e: 4 real palettes, including Tide's brand system and NASA's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fa6b2e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fa6b2e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.91:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.21:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #fa6b2e as the background.
Brands using this color
- Postmanprimary · #fc6c34 · Δ0.588
- GitLabprimary · #fc6d26 · Δ0.814
- Grafana Labssecondary · #ff671d · Δ1.162
- Substackaccent · #ff6719 · Δ1.249
- Fivetran blueaccent · #fe6703 · Δ1.592
- Harley-Davidsonsecondary · #fa6600 · Δ1.681
- FedExsecondary · #ff6600 · Δ1.707
- Abstractsecondary · #ff6900 · Δ1.725
- Xiaomiprimary · #ff6900 · Δ1.725
- Xiaomisecondary · #ff6900 · Δ1.725
- dbt Labsprimary · #fc6304 · Δ1.773
- Hermèsprimary · #f37021 · Δ1.863
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fa6b2e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa6b2e
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 #fa6b2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fa6b2e-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-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