Color

#ff7542

#ff7542
hex#ff7542
rgbrgb(255, 117, 66)
hslhsl(16, 100%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.719 0.181 39.9)
Closest name: coral (#ff7f50)Relative luminance 0.3438

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#42cdff

#ff426e · #ffd342

#42ff75 · #7542ff

Split-complementary

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#42ffd3 · #426eff

#6eff42 · #42cdff · #d342ff

Contrast

#ff7542 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #db3a00 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #a32c00 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.88:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ff7542 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ff7542 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff7542
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #ff7542 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff7542-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md