Color

#ff9142

#ff9142
hex#ff9142
rgbrgb(255, 145, 66)
hslhsl(25, 100%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.762 0.161 53)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.419

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#42b0ff

#ff4252 · #ffef42

#42ff91 · #9142ff

Split-complementary

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#42ffef · #4252ff

#52ff42 · #42b0ff · #ef42ff

Contrast

#ff9142 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c75300 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #943e00 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
9.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ff9142 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

#ff9142 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff9142
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 #ff9142 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff9142-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md