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
#692b50
#692b50
hex
#692b50rgb
rgb(105, 43, 80)hsl
hsl(324, 42%, 29%)oklch
oklch(0.389 0.1 345.9)Closest name: Opulent Purple (#673362)Relative luminance 0.0531
Colors that go with #692b50
Teal, Crimson and Taupe 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 #692b50 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 #692b50 in 4 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #692b50 in 7 real palettes, including Blush and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Nursery and Blush put Blush Pink beside #692b50, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #692b50: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #692b50: 3 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #692b50: 3 real palettes, including Stone and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #692b50 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #692b50
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #692b50 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.18:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.06:1 | 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 #692b50 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
#692b50 reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #692b50
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 #692b50 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/692b50-c19faf-6bcb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?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