Fresh Juice
Open in tool →Orange, mango and mint — a sugar rush; keep the type black so it stays legible under all that color.
Color
#fd6321
#fd6321
hex
#fd6321rgb
rgb(253, 99, 33)hsl
hsl(18, 98%, 56%)oklch
oklch(0.69 0.201 40.2)Closest name: Basketball (#ee6730)Relative luminance 0.2992
Colors that go with #fd6321
Charcoal, Light Sea Green 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 #fd6321: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
complementaryshippedLight Sea Green sits directly opposite #fd6321 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 #fd6321 in 7 real palettes, including Ember and Heatwave, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #fd6321, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fd6321 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #fd6321: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #fd6321: 4 real palettes, including Tide's brand system and NASA's brand system, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #fd6321: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #fd6321
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fd6321 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.01:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.98:1 | 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 #fd6321 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Cloudflaresecondary · #ff5e1f · Δ0.863
- Grafana Labssecondary · #ff671d · Δ0.953
- dbt Labsprimary · #fc6304 · Δ0.957
- Substackaccent · #ff6719 · Δ1.031
- FedExsecondary · #ff6600 · Δ1.334
- Fivetran blueaccent · #fe6703 · Δ1.384
- Harley-Davidsonsecondary · #fa6600 · Δ1.412
- Postmanprimary · #fc6c34 · Δ1.668
- Abstractsecondary · #ff6900 · Δ1.776
- Xiaomiprimary · #ff6900 · Δ1.776
- Xiaomisecondary · #ff6900 · Δ1.776
- GitLabprimary · #fc6d26 · Δ1.799
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fd6321 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fd6321
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 #fd6321 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fd6321-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-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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