Night Market
Open in tool →Orange, magenta and yellow neon on aubergine-black — the street-sign palette for food, nightlife and events.
Color
#fe5420
#fe5420
hex
#fe5420rgb
rgb(254, 84, 32)hsl
hsl(14, 99%, 56%)oklch
oklch(0.674 0.214 36.1)Closest name: orangered (#ff4500)Relative luminance 0.2752
Colors that go with #fe5420
Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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 #fe5420: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #fe5420 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 #fe5420 in 6 real palettes, including Heatwave and Ember, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #fe5420, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #fe5420 in 6 real palettes, including Wise's brand system and Redfin's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #fe5420: 9 real palettes, including Strava's brand system and Soundcloud's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #fe5420: 8 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Heatwave, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #fe5420: 4 real palettes, including Ember and Maple, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #fe5420
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fe5420 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.23:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.5:1 | 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 #fe5420 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Readymagaccent · #ff5000 · Δ0.96
- Prepare your taste buds...primary · #fc5404 · Δ1.023
- Stravaprimary · #fc5404 · Δ1.023
- Substackprimary · #fc5404 · Δ1.023
- Soundcloudsecondary · #ff5500 · Δ1.066
- Intercomsecondary · #ff5600 · Δ1.155
- Together AIprimary · #fc4c02 · Δ1.454
- Tideaccent · #fb4c06 · Δ1.534
- HubSpotsecondary · #ff4800 · Δ1.704
- Cloudflaresecondary · #ff5e1f · Δ1.753
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#fe5420 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fe5420
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 #fe5420 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fe5420-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?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