Color

#8b57bc

#8b57bc
hex#8b57bc
rgbrgb(139, 87, 188)
hslhsl(271, 43%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.559 0.157 305.7)
Closest name: Lusty Lavender (#8d5eb7)Relative luminance 0.1594

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#88bc57

#5957bc · #bc57ba

#bc8b57 · #57bc8b

Split-complementary

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#babc57 · #57bc59

#bc5957 · #88bc57 · #57babc

Contrast

#8b57bc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.02:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7240a0 as the text (7.1:1)
Aaon black
4.19:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #905fbf as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #ac87cf as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8b57bc 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

#8b57bc reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8b57bc
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 #8b57bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8b57bc-b59cc4-c7cb62-2c1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md