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
#dfb65drgb(223, 182, 93)hsl(41, 67%, 62%)oklch(0.795 0.117 84.8)Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Light Sky Blue 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 is the body-text near-black for #dfb65d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #dfb65d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sky Blue sits directly opposite #dfb65d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #dfb65d, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #dfb65d: 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Open House, as the lead colour.
6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #dfb65d, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #dfb65d: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Cornflower Blue with #dfb65d: 6 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
| #dfb65d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.91:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.99:1 | 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 #dfb65d as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#dfb65d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #dfb65d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/dfb65d-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-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