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
#ffe5ec
#ffe5ec
hex
#ffe5ecrgb
rgb(255, 229, 236)hsl
hsl(344, 100%, 95%)oklch
oklch(0.945 0.03 359.5)Closest name: Fairy Dust (#ffe8f4)Relative luminance 0.8335
Colors that go with #ffe5ec
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 #ffe5ec without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ffe5ec in 21 real palettes, including Ember and Binance's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #ffe5ec, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #ffe5ec 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 #ffe5ec, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Garnet and Velvet put Brown beside #ffe5ec, as the lead colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped5 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside #ffe5ec, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ffe5ec in 8 real palettes, including Velvet and Kiln, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffe5ec as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.19:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.67:1 | 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 #ffe5ec 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
#ffe5ec reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffe5ec
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 #ffe5ec and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ffe5ec-c49ca2-62cb7c-2d221f-f1e9ef?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