Color

#8a78ed

#8a78ed
hex#8a78ed
rgbrgb(138, 120, 237)
hslhsl(249, 76%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.644 0.17 287.7)
Closest name: mediumpurple (#9370db)Relative luminance 0.2495

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#dbed78

#78a1ed · #c478ed

#ed8a78 · #78ed8a

Split-complementary

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#edc478 · #a1ed78

#ed78a1 · #dbed78 · #78edc4

Contrast

#8a78ed as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.51:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #725de9 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #4f35e3 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
5.99:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #998aef as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a78ed 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

#8a78ed reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a78ed
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 #8a78ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a78ed-a79cc4-dfae4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md