Color

#ff8b42

#ff8b42
hex#ff8b42
rgbrgb(255, 139, 66)
hslhsl(23, 100%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.752 0.164 49.9)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.4012

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#42b7ff

#ff4258 · #ffe942

#42ff8b · #8b42ff

Split-complementary

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#42ffe9 · #4258ff

#58ff42 · #42b7ff · #e942ff

Contrast

#ff8b42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #cc4e00 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #993b00 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ff8b42 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

#ff8b42 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff8b42
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 #ff8b42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff8b42-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md