Color

#8b09c8

#8b09c8
hex#8b09c8
rgbrgb(139, 9, 200)
hslhsl(281, 91%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.496 0.247 309.2)
Closest name: Lilac Spring (#8822cc)Relative luminance 0.0985

Colors that go with #8b09c8

Denim, Olive Drab and Charcoal 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#46c809

#2c09c8 · #c809a5

#c88b09 · #09c88b

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#a5c809 · #09c82c

#c82c09 · #46c809 · #09a5c8

Contrast

#8b09c8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.07:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b429f5 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #cc6df8 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8b09c8 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

#8b09c8 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8b09c8
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8b09c8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8b09c8-ba9fc1-b6cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md