Color

#fd8a17

#fd8a17
hex#fd8a17
rgbrgb(253, 138, 23)
hslhsl(30, 98%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.176 56.6)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.3912

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#178afd

#fd1717 · #fdfd17

#17fd8a · #8a17fd

Split-complementary

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#17fdfd · #1717fd

#17fd17 · #178afd · #fd17fd

Contrast

#fd8a17 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b65c02 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #884501 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.82:1passpasspassPasses 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 #fd8a17 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#fd8a17 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #fd8a17
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 #fd8a17 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/fd8a17-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md