Blueprint
Open in tool →Cyan and indigo on navy is the developer-tool look; amber is the only warm note, so it always reads as 'attention'.
Color
#8a88fb
#8a88fb
hex
#8a88fbrgb
rgb(138, 136, 251)hsl
hsl(241, 93%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.681 0.166 281.8)Closest name: Orchid (#7a81ff)Relative luminance 0.2998
Colors that go with #8a88fb
Dark Goldenrod, Medium Sea Green and Peru 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.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
complementaryDark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #8a88fb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #8a88fb: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Peru #cd853f
split-complementPeru is a split-complement of #8a88fb: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #8a88fb in two real palettes: Blueprint and Heatwave, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the text near-black for #8a88fb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #8a88fb in two real palettes: Blueprint and Calm's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
shippedHot Pink is paired with #8a88fb in two real palettes: Terminal and Lavender Haze, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #8a88fb in two real palettes: Blue Mono and Lavender Haze, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #8a88fb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a88fb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 7:1 | 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 #8a88fb as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#8a88fb reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a88fb
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8a88fb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a88fb-a19cc4-df9b4e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md