Night Market
Open in tool →Orange, magenta and yellow neon on aubergine-black — the street-sign palette for food, nightlife and events.
Color
#fc5522
#fc5522
hex
#fc5522rgb
rgb(252, 85, 34)hsl
hsl(14, 97%, 56%)oklch
oklch(0.672 0.211 36.2)Closest name: orangered (#ff4500)Relative luminance 0.2731
Colors that go with #fc5522
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 #fc5522 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 #fc5522: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #fc5522 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 #fc5522 in 7 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Monzo's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fc5522 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 #fc5522 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 #fc5522 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 #fc5522 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 #fc5522
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fc5522 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.25:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.46:1 | 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 #fc5522 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Prepare your taste buds...primary · #fc5404 · Δ0.98
- Stravaprimary · #fc5404 · Δ0.98
- Substackprimary · #fc5404 · Δ0.98
- Readymagaccent · #ff5000 · Δ1.124
- Soundcloudsecondary · #ff5500 · Δ1.19
- Intercomsecondary · #ff5600 · Δ1.266
- Together AIprimary · #fc4c02 · Δ1.46
- Tideaccent · #fb4c06 · Δ1.497
- Cloudflaresecondary · #ff5e1f · Δ1.792
- HubSpotsecondary · #ff4800 · Δ1.828
- PlanetScaleprimary · #f35815 · Δ1.868
- PlanetScalesecondary · #f35815 · Δ1.868
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fc5522 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fc5522
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 #fc5522 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fc5522-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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