Color

#fa8f42

#fa8f42
hex#fa8f42
rgbrgb(250, 143, 66)
hslhsl(25, 95%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.752 0.157 53.2)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.4036

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#42adfa

#fa4251 · #faeb42

#42fa8f · #8f42fa

Split-complementary

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#42faeb · #4251fa

#51fa42 · #42adfa · #eb42fa

Contrast

#fa8f42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c25405 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #903e04 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fa8f42 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#fa8f42 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fa8f42
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #fa8f42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fa8f42-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md