Color

#8a194e

#8a194e
hex#8a194e
rgbrgb(138, 25, 78)
hslhsl(332, 69%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.425 0.153 358.1)
Closest name: Aristocratic Velvet (#980b4a)Relative luminance 0.0665

Colors that go with #8a194e

Teal, Taupe and Champagne 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.

Real palettes that use #8a194e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#198a55

#8a1986 · #8a1d19

#4e8a19 · #194e8a

Split-complementary

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#198a1d · #19868a

#868a19 · #198a55 · #1d198a

Contrast

#8a194e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.01:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #d82c7c as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #e571a7 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a194e 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

#8a194e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a194e
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #8a194e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a194e-c49caa-62cb67-2d1f20-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md