Playground
Open in tool →Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.
Color
#fd8d2b
#fd8d2b
hex
#fd8d2brgb
rgb(253, 141, 43)hsl
hsl(28, 98%, 58%)oklch
oklch(0.751 0.169 55.8)Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.4011
Colors that go with #fd8d2b
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Burlywood 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 #fd8d2b: 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 #fd8d2b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fd8d2b in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #fd8d2b in 6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Forest Floor, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #fd8d2b in 4 real palettes, including Golden Hour and Velvet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #fd8d2b in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Canopy, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #fd8d2b in 4 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Fresh Juice, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fd8d2b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fd8d2b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.33:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.02:1 | 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 #fd8d2b as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fd8d2b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fd8d2b
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 #fd8d2b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fd8d2b-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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