Color

#8a40d4

#8a40d4
hex#8a40d4
rgbrgb(138, 64, 212)
hslhsl(270, 63%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.543 0.216 302.6)
Closest name: Dreamscape Purple (#9632ce)Relative luminance 0.1382

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8ad440

#4040d4 · #d440d4

#d48a40 · #40d48a

Split-complementary

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#d4d440 · #40d440

#d44040 · #8ad440 · #40d4d4

Contrast

#8a40d4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.58:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #782cc3 as the text (7.13:1)
Aaon black
3.76:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9655d8 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #b382e3 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (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 #8a40d4 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

#8a40d4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a40d4
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 #8a40d4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a40d4-b59cc4-c9cb62-2c1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md