Color

#8a0ecd

#8a0ecd
hex#8a0ecd
rgbrgb(138, 14, 205)
hslhsl(279, 87%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.5 0.249 307.5)
Closest name: Lilac Spring (#8822cc)Relative luminance 0.1013

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#51cd0e

#2b0ecd · #cd0eb0

#cd8a0e · #0ecd8a

Split-complementary

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#b0cd0e · #0ecd2b

#cd2b0e · #51cd0e · #0eb0cd

Contrast

#8a0ecd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.94:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #870ec8 as the text (7.17:1)
Aaon black
3.03:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ae32f1 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #c670f5 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (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 #8a0ecd 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

#8a0ecd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a0ecd
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 #8a0ecd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a0ecd-b99fc1-b9cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md