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
#e2b660
#e2b660
hex
#e2b660rgb
rgb(226, 182, 96)hsl
hsl(40, 69%, 63%)oklch
oklch(0.798 0.116 82.5)Closest name: Artisans Gold (#f2ab46)Relative luminance 0.5047
Colors that go with #e2b660
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #e2b660: 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 #e2b660: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
complementaryshippedLight Sky Blue sits directly opposite #e2b660 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #e2b660, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e2b660: 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Open House, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #e2b660, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #e2b660: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #e2b660: 6 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Webflow's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e2b660
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e2b660 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.89:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.09:1 | 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 #e2b660 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
#e2b660 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e2b660
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 #e2b660 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e2b660-c4bb9c-62b8cb-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