Color

#8955aa

#8955aa
hex#8955aa
rgbrgb(137, 85, 170)
hslhsl(277, 33%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.543 0.138 310.8)
Closest name: Lusty Lavender (#8d5eb7)Relative luminance 0.1472

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#76aa55

#5f55aa · #aa55a0

#aa8955 · #55aa89

Split-complementary

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#a0aa55 · #55aa5f

#aa5f55 · #76aa55 · #55a0aa

Contrast

#8955aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.33:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #71468b as the text (7.12:1)
Aaon black
3.94:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9363b0 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #ad88c3 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ededed (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8955aa as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8955aa
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 #8955aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8955aa-b99cc4-bdcb62-2d1f2c-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md