Color

#faad1e

#faad1e
hex#faad1e
rgbrgb(250, 173, 30)
hslhsl(39, 96%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.802 0.163 75.4)
Closest name: orange (#ffa500)Relative luminance 0.503

Colors that go with #faad1e

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1e6bfa

#fa3f1e · #d9fa1e

#1efaad · #ad1efa

Split-complementary

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#1ed9fa · #3f1efa

#1efa3f · #1e6bfa · #fa1ed9

Contrast

#faad1e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a06903 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #784f02 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.15:1)
Aaon black
11.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #faad1e as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#faad1e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #faad1e
live endpoint

Point 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.

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

analyze #faad1e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/faad1e-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md