Color

#ff8c2e

#ff8c2e
hex#ff8c2e
rgbrgb(255, 140, 46)
hslhsl(27, 100%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.752 0.171 54.3)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.4021

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2ea1ff

#ff2e38 · #fff52e

#2eff8c · #8c2eff

Split-complementary

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#2efff5 · #2e38ff

#38ff2e · #2ea1ff · #f52eff

Contrast

#ff8c2e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c25700 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #8f4000 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.04:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ff8c2e as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ff8c2e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff8c2e
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 #ff8c2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff8c2e-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md