Color
#8a517e
#8a517ergb(138, 81, 126)hsl(313, 26%, 43%)oklch(0.516 0.098 335.1)Colors that go with #8a517e
Sea Green, Orange and Royal Blue 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #8a517e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Rippling's brand system and Graphite put Orange beside #8a517e, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a517e in 5 real palettes, including Stripe's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8a517e in 13 real palettes, including Blush and GitHub's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #8a517e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Darkroom put Champagne beside #8a517e, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a517e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #8a517e in 3 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #8a517e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a517e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.9:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.56:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a517e 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
#8a517e reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #8a517e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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