Color
#8272ca
#8272cargb(130, 114, 202)hsl(251, 45%, 62%)oklch(0.605 0.131 290.3)Colors that go with #8272ca
Charcoal, Amber and Cobalt 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 text near-black for #8272ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #8272ca in 8 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #8272ca: 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Hershey's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8272ca in 6 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Pizza Hut's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8272ca: 5 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Blueprint, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8272ca: 14 real palettes, including American Express's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8272ca, as the supporting colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #8272ca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #8272ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8272ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.03:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.21:1 | 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 #8272ca as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#8272ca reads as cool, modern. 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 #8272ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8272ca-a89cc4-dfb34e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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