Color
#8a7bd5
#8a7bd5rgb(138, 123, 213)hsl(250, 52%, 66%)oklch(0.635 0.133 289.7)Colors that go with #8a7bd5
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Denim 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 #8a7bd5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8a7bd5: 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Calm's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8a7bd5: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Coursera's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8a7bd5, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a7bd5 in 4 real palettes, including Roblox's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8a7bd5 in 8 real palettes, including Zed's brand system and Retool's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #8a7bd5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
split-complementshippedOlive Drab is a split-complement of #8a7bd5: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #8a7bd5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a7bd5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.57:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.87:1 | 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 #8a7bd5 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
#8a7bd5 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 #8a7bd5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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