Lavender Haze
Open in tool →Violet and pink on lilac-white: Gen-Z friendly, while the deep plum text keeps it legible.
Color
#855dfe
#855dfe
hex
#855dfergb
rgb(133, 93, 254)hsl
hsl(255, 99%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.608 0.227 289.3)Closest name: mediumslateblue (#7b68ee)Relative luminance 0.1997
Colors that go with #855dfe
Deep Sky Blue, Midnight Blue and Taupe 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.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #855dfe: 4 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Render's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Discord's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #855dfe, as that palette's text colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #855dfe in 5 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Zed's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #855dfe on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
split-complementshippedOlive Drab is a split-complement of #855dfe: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #855dfe in 3 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Signal's brand system and Qualcomm's brand system put Blue beside #855dfe, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #855dfe: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Real palettes that use #855dfe
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #855dfe as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.2:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.99:1 | 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 #855dfe as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#855dfe reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #855dfe
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 #855dfe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/855dfe-ab9cc4-dfbd4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?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