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Color
#8043ea
#8043ea
hex
#8043eargb
rgb(128, 67, 234)hsl
hsl(262, 80%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.553 0.234 294)Closest name: Candy Grape Fizz (#7755ee)Relative luminance 0.1454
Colors that go with #8043ea
Midnight Blue, Olive Green 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.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Discord's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8043ea, as that palette's text colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #8043ea on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8043ea: 3 real palettes, including Render's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #8043ea's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8043ea in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Superhuman's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #8043ea — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Forest Green #228b22
split-complementForest Green is a split-complement of #8043ea: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the text near-black for #8043ea: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Real palettes that use #8043ea
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8043ea as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.37:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.91:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8043ea as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#8043ea reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8043ea
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 #8043ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8043ea-af9cc4-dfce4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?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