Named color

Black Velvet

#222233

hex#222233

rgbrgb(34, 34, 51)

hslhsl(240, 20%, 17%)

oklchoklch(0.26 0.032 284)

Relative luminance 0.0172

Cool Muted Dark Luxury Bold

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Black Velvet on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

33334d 434365 54547d 646496 7e7ea9 9797ba afafca c8c8da e0e0eb f9f9fb

Shades — toward black

212131 1d1d2b 1b1b28 181825 161622 12121c 101018 0e0e15 0a0a0f 08080c

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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222233 343423

#343423

Analogous

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222233 232b34 2b2334

#232b34 · #2b2334

Triadic

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222233 342323 233423

#342323 · #233423

Split-complementary

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222233 342b23 2b3423

#342b23 · #2b3423

Tetradic

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222233 34232b 343423 23342b

#34232b · #343423 · #23342b

Contrast

Black Velvet as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	15.62:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.34:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #7272a1 as the text (4.64:1) AAA: use #9494b8 as the text (7.19:1) AA: or shift the background to #8a8a8a (4.52:1) AAA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Black Velvet 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

4b5d8a 8b97b3 c07a4e eef0f4 1f2430

Dusk

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Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.

Cool Muted Elegant

Fonts for this mood

Black Velvet reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Black Velvet

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

try this prompt

›analyze #222233 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/222233-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md