Color

#ffad0a

#ffad0a
hex#ffad0a
rgbrgb(255, 173, 10)
hslhsl(40, 100%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.807 0.169 74.5)
Closest name: orange (#ffa500)Relative luminance 0.5117

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0a5cff

#ff330a · #d6ff0a

#0affad · #ad0aff

Split-complementary

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#0ad6ff · #330aff

#0aff33 · #0a5cff · #ff0ad6

Contrast

#ffad0a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9e6900 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #754e00 as the text (7.38:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
11.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ffad0a as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#ffad0a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffad0a
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 #ffad0a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffad0a-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md