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
#fde2e4
#fde2e4
hex
#fde2e4rgb
rgb(253, 226, 228)hsl
hsl(356, 87%, 94%)oklch
oklch(0.935 0.03 12.6)Closest name: mistyrose (#ffe4e1)Relative luminance 0.8088
Colors that go with #fde2e4
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 #fde2e4 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #fde2e4 in 8 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Instacart's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #fde2e4 in 6 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #fde2e4 in 6 real palettes, including Estate and Blush, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #fde2e4 in 4 real palettes, including Garnet and Velvet, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fde2e4 in 6 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #fde2e4 in 9 real palettes, including Dusk and Estate, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #fde2e4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fde2e4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.22:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.18:1 | 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 #fde2e4 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
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
#fde2e4 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fde2e4
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 #fde2e4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fde2e4-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-f1e9ee?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