Color

#ff843d

#ff843d
hex#ff843d
rgbrgb(255, 132, 61)
hslhsl(22, 100%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.741 0.171 47.6)
Closest name: coral (#ff7f50)Relative luminance 0.381

Colors that go with #ff843d

Charcoal, Deep Sky 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3db8ff

#ff3d57 · #ffe53d

#3dff84 · #843dff

Split-complementary

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#3dffe5 · #3d57ff

#57ff3d · #3db8ff · #e53dff

Contrast

#ff843d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #cc4b00 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #993800 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ff843d as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#ff843d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff843d
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 #ff843d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff843d-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md