Velvet
Open in tool →Burgundy and plum on near-black with a brass accent — theatre, wine, and anything that wants to feel after-dark.
Color
#140d16
#140d16
hex
#140d16rgb
rgb(20, 13, 22)hsl
hsl(287, 26%, 7%)oklch
oklch(0.173 0.021 318.6)Closest name: Noir Fiction (#150811)Relative luminance 0.0049
Colors that go with #140d16
Charcoal, Amber and Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #140d16 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #140d16 in 18 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped21 real palettes, including native Cybersecurity's brand system and EA's brand system put Blue beside #140d16, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #140d16 in 10 real palettes, including Twitch's brand system and Gemstone, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Velvet and Garnet put Brown beside #140d16, as the lead colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Mailchimp's brand system and Qatar Airways's brand system put Burgundy beside #140d16, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #140d16 in 5 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #140d16: 9 real palettes, including Estate and Arctic, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #140d16
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #140d16 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.11:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.1:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #140d16 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Night Market
Open in tool →Orange, magenta and yellow neon on aubergine-black — the street-sign palette for food, nightlife and events.
Gemstone
Open in tool →Emerald, amethyst and ruby on velvet-black — the jewel-tone trio; the surface must be dark or the stones go plastic.
Garnet
Open in tool →Garnet, carnelian and citrine on a wine-black — the warm jewel set for spirits, theatre and jewellery itself.
Fonts for this mood
#140d16 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #140d16
live endpointPoint any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #140d16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/140d16-bd9fc1-abcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md