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
#642b4b
#642b4b
hex
#642b4brgb
rgb(100, 43, 75)hsl
hsl(326, 40%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.379 0.092 347.6)Closest name: Long Passionate Night (#5b365e)Relative luminance 0.0495
Colors that go with #642b4b
Teal, Crimson and Denim 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #642b4b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #642b4b in 5 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #642b4b: 4 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Heinz's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #642b4b: 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #642b4b: 5 real palettes, including Stone and Garden Wedding, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Bookshop put Slate Gray beside #642b4b, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #642b4b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #642b4b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #642b4b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #642b4b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.56:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.99:1 | 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 #642b4b as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#642b4b reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #642b4b
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 #642b4b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/642b4b-c19fae-67cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?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