Color
#8a6bc7
#8a6bc7rgb(138, 107, 199)hsl(260, 45%, 60%)oklch(0.598 0.139 297.6)Colors that go with #8a6bc7
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Taupe 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #8a6bc7: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #8a6bc7 in 5 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Plaid's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8a6bc7 in 6 real palettes, including Zed's brand system and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #8a6bc7 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #8a6bc7: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #8a6bc7 in 3 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Blueprint, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #8a6bc7 in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Ledger Dark, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a6bc7 in 3 real palettes, including Loom's brand system and Stripe's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #8a6bc7
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a6bc7 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.19:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.01:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a6bc7 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
#8a6bc7 reads as cool, modern. 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 #8a6bc7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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