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
#dcbc6f
#dcbc6f
hex
#dcbc6frgb
rgb(220, 188, 111)hsl
hsl(42, 61%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.807 0.103 87.5)Closest name: burlywood (#deb887)Relative luminance 0.5233
Colors that go with #dcbc6f
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Lilac 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #dcbc6f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #dcbc6f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #dcbc6f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #dcbc6f in 6 real palettes, including Coastal and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #dcbc6f in 5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #dcbc6f in 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #dcbc6f in 6 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Diner, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #dcbc6f in 6 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Farmers Market, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #dcbc6f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dcbc6f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.83:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.47:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #dcbc6f 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
#dcbc6f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #dcbc6f
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 #dcbc6f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/dcbc6f-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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