Color

#840dbf

#840dbf
hex#840dbf
rgbrgb(132, 13, 191)
hslhsl(280, 87%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.48 0.237 308.9)
Closest name: Lilac Spring (#8822cc)Relative luminance 0.0895

Colors that go with #840dbf

Olive Drab, 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.

Real palettes that use #840dbf

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#48bf0d

#2b0dbf · #bf0da1

#bf840d · #0dbf84

Split-complementary

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#a1bf0d · #0dbf2b

#bf2b0d · #48bf0d · #0da1bf

Contrast

#840dbf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.52:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b132f1 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #c970f5 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #840dbf 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

#840dbf reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #840dbf
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #840dbf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/840dbf-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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