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
#ffe5ed
#ffe5ed
hex
#ffe5edrgb
rgb(255, 229, 237)hsl
hsl(342, 100%, 95%)oklch
oklch(0.945 0.03 357.1)Closest name: Fairy Dust (#ffe8f4)Relative luminance 0.8341
Colors that go with #ffe5ed
Charcoal, Dark Turquoise and Deep Sky 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 body-text near-black for #ffe5ed: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
split-complementshippedDark Turquoise is a split-complement of #ffe5ed: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
triadicshippedDeep Sky Blue completes a triad with #ffe5ed — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Lime Green #32cd32
split-complementshippedLime Green is a split-complement of #ffe5ed: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Yellow Green #9acd32
triadicshippedYellow Green completes a triad with #ffe5ed — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Medium Aquamarine #66cdaa
complementaryshippedMedium Aquamarine sits directly opposite #ffe5ed 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 #ffe5ed 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 #ffe5ed, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ffe5ed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.19:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.68:1 | 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 #ffe5ed 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
#ffe5ed reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffe5ed
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 #ffe5ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ffe5ed-c49ca3-62cb79-2d211f-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