Color

#ffa142

#ffa142
hex#ffa142
rgbrgb(255, 161, 66)
hslhsl(30, 100%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.788 0.154 62.1)
Closest name: Bittersweet (#fea051)Relative luminance 0.4714

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#42a1ff

#ff4242 · #ffff42

#42ffa1 · #a142ff

Split-complementary

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#42ffff · #4242ff

#42ff42 · #42a1ff · #ff42ff

Contrast

#ffa142 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.01:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b85c00 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #8a4500 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.03:1)
Aaon black
10.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ffa142 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

#ffa142 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffa142
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 #ffa142 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffa142-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md