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
#8312ca
#8312ca
hex
#8312cargb
rgb(131, 18, 202)hsl
hsl(277, 84%, 43%)oklch
oklch(0.49 0.244 305.6)Closest name: Lilac Spring (#8822cc)Relative luminance 0.0952
Colors that go with #8312ca
Olive Green, Charcoal and Denim 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.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #8312ca 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 #8312ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #8312ca in 3 real palettes, including Peacock and Slack's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #8312ca's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #8312ca — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementSea Green is a split-complement of #8312ca: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #8312ca in two real palettes: Kraken's brand system and Render's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
shippedLight Sea Green is paired with #8312ca in two real palettes: Circuit and Taco Bell's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #8312ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8312ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.23:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.9:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8312ca 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
#8312ca reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8312ca
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 #8312ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8312ca-b99cc4-bdcb62-2d1f2c-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