Named color

Midnight Velvet

#2a2243

hex#2a2243

rgbrgb(42, 34, 67)

hslhsl(255, 33%, 20%)

oklchoklch(0.278 0.06 293.3)

Relative luminance 0.0204

Cool Muted Dark Luxury Bold

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Midnight Velvet on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the 1 public brand that uses it and the palettes it appears in.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

3c305f 4d3e7a 5c4992 6d59ab 8574b9 9d8fc7 b5aad4 cac2e0 e1ddee f9f8fc

Shades — toward black

261f3d 241d3a 201a33 1e182f 1a1529 151122 130f1f 0f0c18 0d0a14 09070e

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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2a2243 3b4422

#3b4422

Analogous

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2a2243 222b44 3b2244

#222b44 · #3b2244

Triadic

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2a2243 442b22 22442b

#442b22 · #22442b

Split-complementary

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2a2243 443b22 2b4422

#443b22 · #2b4422

Tetradic

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2a2243 44222b 3b4422 22443b

#44222b · #3b4422 · #22443b

Contrast

Midnight Velvet as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	14.91:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.41:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #7c6ab4 as the text (4.58:1) AAA: use #9d8fc7 as the text (7.19:1) AA: or shift the background to #8f8f8f (4.61:1) AAA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Midnight Velvet as the background.

Brands using this color

Sketchprimary · #2c203b · Δ1.521

Palettes built around it

8b5cf6 c4b5fd f472b6 faf7ff 2e1f47

Lavender Haze

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Violet and pink on lilac-white: Gen-Z friendly, while the deep plum text keeps it legible.

Playful Cool Light

Fonts for this mood

Midnight Velvet reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Midnight Velvet

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

try this prompt

›analyze #2a2243 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/2a2243-ab9cc4-dfbd4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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