Night Market
Open in tool →Orange, magenta and yellow neon on aubergine-black — the street-sign palette for food, nightlife and events.
Color
#ff5e00
#ff5e00
hex
#ff5e00rgb
rgb(255, 94, 0)hsl
hsl(22, 100%, 50%)oklch
oklch(0.686 0.21 41.1)Closest name: Arancio (#ff7013)Relative luminance 0.2927
Colors that go with #ff5e00
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 #ff5e00: 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 #ff5e00 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 #ff5e00 in 8 real palettes, including Ember and Heatwave, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #ff5e00, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ff5e00: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Diner, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #ff5e00: 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 #ff5e00: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ff5e00 in 6 real palettes, including Burger King's brand system and Pizza Hut's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ff5e00
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ff5e00 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.06:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.85:1 | 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 #ff5e00 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Cloudflaresecondary · #ff5e1f · Δ0.911
- dbt Labsprimary · #fc6304 · Δ0.923
- Intercomsecondary · #ff5600 · Δ1.348
- FedExsecondary · #ff6600 · Δ1.436
- Soundcloudsecondary · #ff5500 · Δ1.51
- Substackaccent · #ff6719 · Δ1.537
- Grafana Labssecondary · #ff671d · Δ1.556
- Harley-Davidsonsecondary · #fa6600 · Δ1.557
- Fivetran blueaccent · #fe6703 · Δ1.577
- Prepare your taste buds...primary · #fc5404 · Δ1.913
- Stravaprimary · #fc5404 · Δ1.913
- Substackprimary · #fc5404 · Δ1.913
- Abstractsecondary · #ff6900 · Δ1.996
- Xiaomiprimary · #ff6900 · Δ1.996
- Xiaomisecondary · #ff6900 · Δ1.996
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ff5e00 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff5e00
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 #ff5e00 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ff5e00-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-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