Color

#8a42bd

#8a42bd
hex#8a42bd
rgbrgb(138, 66, 189)
hslhsl(275, 48%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.529 0.189 308.1)
Closest name: Dreamscape Purple (#9632ce)Relative luminance 0.1297

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#75bd42

#4c42bd · #bd42b3

#bd8a42 · #42bd8a

Split-complementary

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#b3bd42 · #42bd4d

#bd4d42 · #75bd42 · #42b3bd

Contrast

#8a42bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.84:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #793aa6 as the text (7.07:1)
Aaon black
3.59:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9859c5 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #b282d3 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (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 #8a42bd 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

#8a42bd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a42bd
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 #8a42bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a42bd-b89cc4-c0cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md