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
#f9e2ef
#f9e2ef
hex
#f9e2efrgb
rgb(249, 226, 239)hsl
hsl(326, 66%, 93%)oklch
oklch(0.935 0.03 342.6)Closest name: Bunny Tail (#ffe3f4)Relative luminance 0.8076
Colors that go with #f9e2ef
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Light Coral 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 #f9e2ef: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
triadicshippedDeep Sky Blue completes a triad with #f9e2ef — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Light Coral #f08080
analogousshippedLight Coral is #f9e2ef's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Plum #dda0dd
analogousshippedPlum is #f9e2ef's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Yellow Green #9acd32
split-complementshippedYellow Green is a split-complement of #f9e2ef: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Medium Aquamarine #66cdaa
complementaryshippedMedium Aquamarine sits directly opposite #f9e2ef on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #f9e2ef in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #f9e2ef, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #f9e2ef as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.22:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.15:1 | 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 #f9e2ef 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
#f9e2ef reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #f9e2ef
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 #f9e2ef and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/f9e2ef-c19fae-67cb62-2d1f21-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