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
#662e40
#662e40
hex
#662e40rgb
rgb(102, 46, 64)hsl
hsl(341, 38%, 29%)oklch
oklch(0.383 0.083 1.5)Closest name: Arcane Red (#6a2f2f)Relative luminance 0.0515
Colors that go with #662e40
Teal, Copper and Crimson 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 #662e40 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #662e40: 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Notion's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #662e40 in 6 real palettes, including M&M's's brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #662e40: 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 #662e40: 4 real palettes, including Nursery and Macaron, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #662e40: 6 real palettes, including Stone and Garden Wedding, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #662e40, as the supporting colour.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #662e40 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #662e40 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #662e40
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #662e40 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.35:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.03:1 | 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 #662e40 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
#662e40 reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #662e40
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 #662e40 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/662e40-c49ca4-62cb77-2d211f-f1e9ef?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