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
#693044
#693044
hex
#693044rgb
rgb(105, 48, 68)hsl
hsl(339, 37%, 30%)oklch
oklch(0.392 0.085 359.6)Closest name: Arcane Red (#6a2f2f)Relative luminance 0.0553
Colors that go with #693044
Teal, Charcoal 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 #693044 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #693044: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #693044 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 #693044: 5 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Heinz's brand system, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #693044: 5 real palettes, including Stone and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #693044, as the supporting colour.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped4 real palettes, including Golden Hour and Harley-Davidson's brand system put Tomato beside #693044, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #693044: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #693044
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #693044 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.97:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.11:1 | 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 #693044 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
#693044 reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #693044
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 #693044 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/693044-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