Color

#8a81ee

#8a81ee
hex#8a81ee
rgbrgb(138, 129, 238)
hslhsl(245, 76%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.158 284.9)
Closest name: Periwinkle (#8e82fe)Relative luminance 0.2728

Tints & shades

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Harmonies

Complementary

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#e5ee81

#81afee · #c181ee

#ee8a81 · #81ee8a

Split-complementary

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#eec181 · #afee81

#ee81af · #e5ee81 · #81eec1

Contrast

#8a81ee as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.25:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6d62ea as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #4435e3 as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.46:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #938aef as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a81ee 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

#8a81ee reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a81ee
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 #8a81ee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a81ee-a49cc4-dfa54e-261f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md