Color

#8b87ed

#8b87ed
hex#8b87ed
rgbrgb(139, 135, 237)
hslhsl(242, 74%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.672 0.148 283.4)
Closest name: Perrywinkle (#8f8ce7)Relative luminance 0.2893

Colors that go with #8b87ed

Amber, Blue 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

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#eaed87

#87b7ed · #be87ed

#ed8b87 · #87ed8b

Split-complementary

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#edbe87 · #b7ed87

#ed87b7 · #eaed87 · #87edbe

Contrast

#8b87ed as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.09:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6864e8 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #413ce2 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.79:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8f8cee as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8b87ed 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

#8b87ed reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8b87ed
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 #8b87ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8b87ed-a29cc4-df9e4e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md