Color

#8a61ae

#8a61ae
hex#8a61ae
rgbrgb(138, 97, 174)
hslhsl(272, 32%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.567 0.123 307.5)
Closest name: Lusty Lavender (#8d5eb7)Relative luminance 0.1701

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#85ae61

#6361ae · #ae61ab

#ae8a61 · #61ae8a

Split-complementary

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#abae61 · #61ae63

#ae6361 · #85ae61 · #61abae

Contrast

#8a61ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.77:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #6d498d as the text (7.03:1)
Aaon black
4.4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c64af as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #a889c2 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (4.57:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a61ae as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a61ae
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 #8a61ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a61ae-b69cc4-c5cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md