Electric Lime
Open in tool →One neon on white with black type — lime-and-black is the neon that works in daylight; the orange is a second gear.
Color
#fe481b
#fe481b
hex
#fe481brgb
rgb(254, 72, 27)hsl
hsl(12, 99%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.662 0.224 34.1)Closest name: orangered (#ff4500)Relative luminance 0.2578
Colors that go with #fe481b
Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Gold 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 #fe481b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #fe481b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold is paired with #fe481b in 5 real palettes, including Streetwear and Night Market, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #fe481b in 4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #fe481b in 14 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Cursor's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
split-complementshippedLight Sea Green is a split-complement of #fe481b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #fe481b in 3 real palettes, including Heatwave and Ember, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fe481b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fe481b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.41:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.16:1 | 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 #fe481b as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fe481b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fe481b
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 #fe481b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fe481b-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-f1e9ec?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