Blueprint
Open in tool →Cyan and indigo on navy is the developer-tool look; amber is the only warm note, so it always reads as 'attention'.
Color
#8b8dfd
#8b8dfd
hex
#8b8dfdrgb
rgb(139, 141, 253)hsl
hsl(239, 97%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.692 0.162 280.5)Closest name: Perrywinkle (#8f8ce7)Relative luminance 0.3163
Colors that go with #8b8dfd
Amber, Blue and Deep Sky Blue 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.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #8b8dfd in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #8b8dfd, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8b8dfd: 7 real palettes, including Blueprint and Figma's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8b8dfd: 4 real palettes, including Apple's brand system and Coursera's brand system, as the accent.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold shows up next to #8b8dfd in 4 real palettes, including Phantom: The money app that'll take you placesLogo PhantomLogo PhantomLogo Phantom's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #8b8dfd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Lavender Haze put Midnight Blue beside #8b8dfd, as the text colour against it.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #8b8dfd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Real palettes that use #8b8dfd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8b8dfd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.33:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8b8dfd as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#8b8dfd reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8b8dfd
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8b8dfd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8b8dfd-a09cc4-df964e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md