Gemstone
Open in tool →Emerald, amethyst and ruby on velvet-black — the jewel-tone trio; the surface must be dark or the stones go plastic.
Color
#822ecc
#822ecc
hex
#822eccrgb
rgb(130, 46, 204)hsl
hsl(272, 63%, 49%)oklch
oklch(0.508 0.226 303.1)Closest name: Lilac Spring (#8822cc)Relative luminance 0.1106
Colors that go with #822ecc
Denim, Olive Green and Sea Green 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.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #822ecc: 4 real palettes, including Linkedin's brand system and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #822ecc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #822ecc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #822ecc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #822ecc: 3 real palettes, including Kraken's brand system and Render's brand system, as the accent.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
shippedMedium Slate Blue shows up next to #822ecc in 3 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and monday.com's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #822ecc'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 #822ecc in 3 real palettes, including Superhuman's brand system and Datadog's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #822ecc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #822ecc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.54:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.21:1 | 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 #822ecc 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
Fonts for this mood
#822ecc reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #822ecc
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 #822ecc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/822ecc-b69cc4-c5cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?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