Color
#8873ce
#8873cergb(136, 115, 206)hsl(254, 48%, 63%)oklch(0.615 0.135 292.6)Colors that go with #8873ce
Charcoal, Amber and Deep Sky 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 #8873ce: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #8873ce in 4 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8873ce: 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Calm's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8873ce: 7 real palettes, including American Express's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8873ce, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8873ce in 4 real palettes, including Loom's brand system and Stripe's brand system, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8873ce in 9 real palettes, including Zed's brand system and Obsidian's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #8873ce 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 #8873ce
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8873ce as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.9:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.39:1 | 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 #8873ce 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
#8873ce reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #8873ce and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8873ce-aa9cc4-dfbb4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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