Color
#8a3879
#8a3879rgb(138, 56, 121)hsl(312, 42%, 38%)oklch(0.476 0.138 336.3)Colors that go with #8a3879
Denim, Sea Green and Charcoal 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.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8a3879: 4 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Peacock, as the accent.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementarySea Green sits directly opposite #8a3879 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a3879: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8a3879 in 3 real palettes, including Blush and Superhuman's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Teal #008080
split-complementTeal is a split-complement of #8a3879: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
split-complementDark Olive Green is a split-complement of #8a3879: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8a3879 in two real palettes: Lenovo's brand system and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold shows up next to #8a3879 in two real palettes: Garnet and Mailchimp's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #8a3879
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a3879 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.19:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.92:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a3879 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
#8a3879 reads as warm. 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 #8a3879 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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