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
#68273e
#68273e
hex
#68273ergb
rgb(104, 39, 62)hsl
hsl(339, 45%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.374 0.096 0.8)Closest name: Arcane Red (#6a2f2f)Relative luminance 0.0474
Colors that go with #68273e
Teal, Powder Blue and Sage Green 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 #68273e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #68273e in 4 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #68273e in 5 real palettes, including Stone and Garden Wedding, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #68273e in 3 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Tim Hortons's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #68273e in 3 real palettes, including Nursery and Blush, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #68273e in 3 real palettes, including Bramble and Notion's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #68273e in 3 real palettes, including M&M's's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #68273e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #68273e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #68273e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.78:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.95:1 | 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 #68273e 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
#68273e reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #68273e
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 #68273e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/68273e-c49ca5-62cb74-2d211f-f1e9f0?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