Color

orange

#ffa500
hex#ffa500
rgbrgb(255, 165, 0)
hslhsl(39, 100%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.793 0.171 70.7)
Relative luminance 0.4817

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0059ff

#ff2600 · #d9ff00

#00ffa6 · #a600ff

Split-complementary

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#00d9ff · #2600ff

#00ff26 · #0059ff · #ff00d9

Contrast

orange as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a36a00 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #7a5000 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.17:1)
Aaon black
10.63:1passpasspassPasses 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 orange as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around orange
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 #ffa500 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffa500-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md