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
#faeaf8
#faeaf8
hex
#faeaf8rgb
rgb(250, 234, 248)hsl
hsl(308, 62%, 95%)oklch
oklch(0.954 0.025 329.7)Closest name: Fairy Dust (#ffe8f4)Relative luminance 0.8595
Colors that go with #faeaf8
Charcoal, Amber and 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #faeaf8 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #faeaf8 in 21 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Ember, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #faeaf8, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #faeaf8 in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #faeaf8, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Velvet and Garnet put Brown beside #faeaf8, as the lead colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped5 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside #faeaf8, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #faeaf8 in 8 real palettes, including Velvet and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #faeaf8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #faeaf8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.15:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 18.19:1 | 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 #faeaf8 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
Gemstone
Open in tool →Emerald, amethyst and ruby on velvet-black — the jewel-tone trio; the surface must be dark or the stones go plastic.
Garnet
Open in tool →Garnet, carnelian and citrine on a wine-black — the warm jewel set for spirits, theatre and jewellery itself.
Fonts for this mood
#faeaf8 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #faeaf8
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 #faeaf8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/faeaf8-c19fb8-87cb62-2d1f25-eee9f1?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