Color

#8a42d1

#8a42d1
hex#8a42d1
rgbrgb(138, 66, 209)
hslhsl(270, 61%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.543 0.21 303)
Closest name: Dreamscape Purple (#9632ce)Relative luminance 0.139

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8ad142

#4242d1 · #d142d1

#d18a42 · #42d18a

Split-complementary

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#d1d142 · #42d142

#d14242 · #8ad142 · #42d1d1

Contrast

#8a42d1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.55:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #782fc1 as the text (7.06:1)
Aaon black
3.78:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9657d6 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #b080e0 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (4.53:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a42d1 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

#8a42d1 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a42d1
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 #8a42d1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a42d1-b59cc4-c9cb62-2c1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md