Color

#8740dd

#8740dd
hex#8740dd
rgbrgb(135, 64, 221)
hslhsl(267, 70%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.546 0.225 299.5)
Closest name: blueviolet (#8a2be2)Relative luminance 0.1404

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97dd40

#4048dd · #d540dd

#dd8740 · #40dd87

Split-complementary

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#ddd540 · #48dd40

#dd4048 · #97dd40 · #40ddd5

Contrast

#8740dd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.52:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7425d4 as the text (7.1:1)
Aaon black
3.81:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9252e0 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #b081e9 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (4.5:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8740dd 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

#8740dd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8740dd
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #8740dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8740dd-b39cc4-dfda4e-2c1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md