Color

#fc8a2c

#fc8a2c
hex#fc8a2c
rgbrgb(252, 138, 44)
hslhsl(27, 97%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.17 54.4)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.3905

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2c9efc

#fc2c36 · #fcf12c

#2cfc8a · #8a2cfc

Split-complementary

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#2cfcf1 · #2c36fc

#36fc2c · #2c9efc · #f12cfc

Contrast

#fc8a2c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #bf5803 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #8d4002 as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fc8a2c as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#fc8a2c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fc8a2c
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 #fc8a2c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fc8a2c-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md