Color

#ffa538

#ffa538
hex#ffa538
rgbrgb(255, 165, 56)
hslhsl(33, 100%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.795 0.157 66.2)
Closest name: orange (#ffa500)Relative luminance 0.4846

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3892ff

#ff4238 · #f5ff38

#38ffa5 · #a538ff

Split-complementary

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#38f5ff · #4238ff

#38ff42 · #3892ff · #ff38f5

Contrast

#ffa538 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b36200 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #854900 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.21:1)
Aaon black
10.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ffa538 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#ffa538 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffa538
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 #ffa538 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffa538-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md