Color

#8597ea

#8597ea
hex#8597ea
rgbrgb(133, 151, 234)
hslhsl(229, 71%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.697 0.124 273.5)
Closest name: Perrywinkle (#8f8ce7)Relative luminance 0.3306

Colors that go with #8597ea

Charcoal, Amber and 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ead885

#85caea · #a585ea

#ea8597 · #97ea85

Split-complementary

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#eaa585 · #caea85

#ea85ca · #ead885 · #85eaa5

Contrast

#8597ea as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #516be1 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #2546da as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.61:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8597ea 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

#8597ea reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8597ea
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 #8597ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8597ea-9c9fc4-df7e4e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md