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
#6b294d
#6b294d
hex
#6b294drgb
rgb(107, 41, 77)hsl
hsl(327, 45%, 29%)oklch
oklch(0.388 0.104 349.2)Closest name: Grape (#6c3461)Relative luminance 0.0525
Colors that go with #6b294d
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 #6b294d 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 #6b294d in 4 real palettes, including Lenovo's brand system and M&M's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #6b294d 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 #6b294d, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #6b294d: 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 #6b294d: 3 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #6b294d: 3 real palettes, including Stone and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #6b294d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #6b294d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #6b294d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.25:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.05:1 | 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 #6b294d 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
#6b294d reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #6b294d
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 #6b294d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/6b294d-c19fae-66cb62-2d1f21-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