Color
#8181ea
#8181eargb(129, 129, 234)hsl(240, 71%, 71%)oklch(0.651 0.154 281.3)Colors that go with #8181ea
Dark Goldenrod, Charcoal and Midnight 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.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
complementaryDark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #8181ea on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #8181ea: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #8181ea in 3 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Plaid's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8181ea in 3 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
triadicshippedMedium Sea Green completes a triad with #8181ea — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
split-complementOlive Drab is a split-complement of #8181ea: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #8181ea in two real palettes: Blueprint and Heatwave, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #8181ea in two real palettes: Notion's brand system and Dusk — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #8181ea
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8181ea as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.35:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.26:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8181ea as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#8181ea reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8181ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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