Color

#8a74aa

#8a74aa
hex#8a74aa
rgbrgb(138, 116, 170)
hslhsl(264, 24%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.6 0.084 302.6)
Closest name: Aster (#867ba9)Relative luminance 0.208

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#94aa74

#7479aa · #a474aa

#aa8974 · #74aa89

Split-complementary

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#aaa474 · #79aa74

#aa7479 · #94aa74 · #74aaa4

Contrast

#8a74aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #816aa4 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #644f82 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.53:1)
Aaon black
5.16:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a190bb as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a74aa 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 #8a74aa
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 #8a74aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a74aa-b19cc4-dfd34e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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