Color

#ff8742

#ff8742
hex#ff8742
rgbrgb(255, 135, 66)
hslhsl(22, 100%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.746 0.167 47.9)
Closest name: coral (#ff7f50)Relative luminance 0.3898

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#42baff

#ff425b · #ffe642

#42ff87 · #8742ff

Split-complementary

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#42ffe6 · #425bff

#5bff42 · #42baff · #e642ff

Contrast

#ff8742 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.39:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #cc4b00 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #993800 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.8:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ff8742 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

#ff8742 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff8742
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 #ff8742 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff8742-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md