Color

#8a42ae

#8a42ae
hex#8a42ae
rgbrgb(138, 66, 174)
hslhsl(280, 45%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.519 0.173 312.7)
Closest name: Fuchsia Pheromone (#9f4cb7)Relative luminance 0.1236

Tints & shades

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Harmonies

Complementary

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#66ae42

#5442ae · #ae429c

#ae8a42 · #42ae8a

Split-complementary

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#9cae42 · #42ae54

#ae5442 · #66ae42 · #429cae

Contrast

#8a42ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.05:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7b3b9b as the text (7.14:1)
Aaon black
3.47:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9d59c0 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #b581cf as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a42ae 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

#8a42ae reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a42ae
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 #8a42ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a42ae-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md