Color

#ff742e

#ff742e
hex#ff742e
rgbrgb(255, 116, 46)
hslhsl(20, 100%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.716 0.187 43.8)
Closest name: Arancio (#ff7013)Relative luminance 0.3395

Colors that go with #ff742e

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2eb9ff

#ff2e51 · #ffdc2e

#2eff74 · #742eff

Split-complementary

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#2effdc · #2e51ff

#51ff2e · #2eb9ff · #dc2eff

Contrast

#ff742e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d14600 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #9e3500 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.79:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ff742e as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ff742e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff742e
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

›analyze #ff742e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff742e-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md