Color

#ffa42e

#ffa42e
hex#ffa42e
rgbrgb(255, 164, 46)
hslhsl(34, 100%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.792 0.162 67.1)
Closest name: orange (#ffa500)Relative luminance 0.4801

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e89ff

#ff3c2e · #f1ff2e

#2effa4 · #a42eff

Split-complementary

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#2ef1ff · #3c2eff

#2eff3c · #2e89ff · #ff2ef1

Contrast

#ffa42e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ad6200 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #804800 as the text (7.38:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.15:1)
Aaon black
10.6:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ffa42e as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#ffa42e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffa42e
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 #ffa42e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffa42e-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md