Color

#8b85ff

#8b85ff
hex#8b85ff
rgbrgb(139, 133, 255)
hslhsl(243, 100%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.678 0.175 282.9)
Closest name: Periwinkle (#8e82fe)Relative luminance 0.2948

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#f9ff85

#85bcff · #c885ff

#ff8b85 · #85ff8b

Split-complementary

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#ffc885 · #bcff85

#ff85bc · #f9ff85 · #85ffc8

Contrast

#8b85ff as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.04:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #645cff as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #3429ff as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.9:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #908aff as the text (7.27:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8b85ff 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

#8b85ff reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8b85ff
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 #8b85ff and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8b85ff-a39cc4-dfa04e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md