Color

#ff9838

#ff9838
hex#ff9838
rgbrgb(255, 152, 56)
hslhsl(29, 100%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.772 0.161 58.9)
Closest name: Bittersweet (#fea051)Relative luminance 0.44

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#389fff

#ff383b · #fffc38

#38ff98 · #9838ff

Split-complementary

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#38fffc · #383bff

#3bff38 · #389fff · #fc38ff

Contrast

#ff9838 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #bd5b00 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #8a4300 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9.8:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ff9838 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

#ff9838 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff9838
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 #ff9838 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff9838-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md