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
#fde3e5
#fde3e5
hex
#fde3e5rgb
rgb(253, 227, 229)hsl
hsl(355, 87%, 94%)oklch
oklch(0.938 0.029 12.4)Closest name: mistyrose (#ffe4e1)Relative luminance 0.8148
Colors that go with #fde3e5
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 #fde3e5 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #fde3e5 in 21 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #fde3e5, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #fde3e5 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 #fde3e5, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Garnet and Velvet put Brown beside #fde3e5, as the lead colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped5 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside #fde3e5, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #fde3e5 in 8 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #fde3e5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #fde3e5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.21:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.3:1 | 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 #fde3e5 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
#fde3e5 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #fde3e5
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 #fde3e5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/fde3e5-c49e9c-62cb8f-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