Color

#ff9a42

#ff9a42
hex#ff9a42
rgbrgb(255, 154, 66)
hslhsl(28, 100%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.776 0.156 58)
Closest name: Bittersweet (#fea051)Relative luminance 0.4476

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#42a7ff

#ff4249 · #fff942

#42ff9a · #9a42ff

Split-complementary

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#42fff9 · #4249ff

#49ff42 · #42a7ff · #f942ff

Contrast

#ff9a42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #bd5800 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #8f4300 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
9.95:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ff9a42 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

#ff9a42 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ff9a42
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 #ff9a42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ff9a42-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md