Color
#8478ab
#8478abrgb(132, 120, 171)hsl(254, 23%, 57%)oklch(0.603 0.077 294.8)Colors that go with #8478ab
Charcoal, Copper 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 #8478ab: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
split-complementshippedCopper is a split-complement of #8478ab: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #8478ab: 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8478ab: 4 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Telegram's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8478ab: 8 real palettes, including Campus and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8478ab, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8478ab in 14 real palettes, including Still Water and Typewriter, as that palette's text colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #8478ab 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 #8478ab
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8478ab as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.26:1 | 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 #8478ab as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #8478ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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