Color

#ff981a

#ff981a
hex#ff981a
rgbrgb(255, 152, 26)
hslhsl(33, 100%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.771 0.171 62.7)
Closest name: darkorange (#ff8c00)Relative luminance 0.4379

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1a81ff

#ff251a · #f4ff1a

#1aff98 · #981aff

Split-complementary

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#1af4ff · #251aff

#1aff25 · #1a81ff · #ff1af4

Contrast

#ff981a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b36200 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #854900 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
9.76:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ff981a as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ff981a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff981a
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 #ff981a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff981a-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md