Color

#ff9500

#ff9500
hex#ff9500
rgbrgb(255, 149, 0)
hslhsl(35, 100%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.765 0.175 62.6)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.4275

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#006aff

#ff1500 · #eaff00

#00ff95 · #9500ff

Split-complementary

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#00eaff · #1500ff

#00ff15 · #006aff · #ff00ea

Contrast

#ff9500 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ad6500 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #804a00 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9.55:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ff9500 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ff9500 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff9500
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 #ff9500 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff9500-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md