Clinic
Open in tool →Teal reads clinical without the coldness of pure blue; the coral accent adds warmth for reassurance moments.
Color
#fb6e28
#fb6e28
hex
#fb6e28rgb
rgb(251, 110, 40)hsl
hsl(20, 96%, 57%)oklch
oklch(0.702 0.189 43.1)Closest name: Arancio (#ff7013)Relative luminance 0.3181
Colors that go with #fb6e28
Charcoal, Deep Sky 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 #fb6e28: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
complementaryshippedDeep Sky Blue sits directly opposite #fb6e28 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 #fb6e28 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 #fb6e28, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fb6e28 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Kiln, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #fb6e28: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #fb6e28: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fb6e28 in 8 real palettes, including Burger King's brand system and Pizza Hut's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #fb6e28
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fb6e28 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.85:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.36:1 | 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 #fb6e28 as the background.
Brands using this color
- GitLabprimary · #fc6d26 · Δ0.228
- Postmanprimary · #fc6c34 · Δ1.003
- Grafana Labssecondary · #ff671d · Δ1.302
- Substackaccent · #ff6719 · Δ1.313
- Abstractsecondary · #ff6900 · Δ1.374
- Xiaomiprimary · #ff6900 · Δ1.374
- Xiaomisecondary · #ff6900 · Δ1.374
- Fivetran blueaccent · #fe6703 · Δ1.47
- Hermèsprimary · #f37021 · Δ1.568
- FedExsecondary · #ff6600 · Δ1.629
- Harley-Davidsonsecondary · #fa6600 · Δ1.741
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fb6e28 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fb6e28
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 #fb6e28 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fb6e28-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-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