Color

#8b16ca

#8b16ca
hex#8b16ca
rgbrgb(139, 22, 202)
hslhsl(279, 80%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.502 0.244 308.4)
Closest name: Lilac Spring (#8822cc)Relative luminance 0.1033

Tints & shades

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Harmonies

Complementary

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#55ca16

#3116ca · #ca16af

#ca8b16 · #16ca8b

Split-complementary

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#afca16 · #16ca31

#ca3116 · #55ca16 · #16afca

Contrast

#8b16ca as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.85:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8816c5 as the text (7.08:1)
Aaon black
3.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ac3ae9 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #c575f0 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (4.62:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8b16ca 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

#8b16ca reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8b16ca
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 #8b16ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8b16ca-b99fc1-b9cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md