Color
#8974dc
#8974dcrgb(137, 116, 220)hsl(252, 60%, 66%)oklch(0.625 0.153 290.6)Colors that go with #8974dc
Charcoal, Blue 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 #8974dc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #8974dc, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8974dc: 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Calm's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8974dc: 4 real palettes, including Coursera's brand system and Fivetran blue's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8974dc, as that palette's text colour.
Red #ff0000
shippedRed is paired with #8974dc in 4 real palettes, including Twitch's brand system and Nike's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8974dc in 4 real palettes, including Loom's brand system and Stripe's brand system, as the lead colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #8974dc 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 #8974dc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8974dc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.75:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.6:1 | 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 #8974dc 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
#8974dc reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #8974dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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