Color

#8c2257

#8c2257
hex#8c2257
rgbrgb(140, 34, 87)
hslhsl(330, 61%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.44 0.149 354.7)
Closest name: Berry (#990f4b)Relative luminance 0.0741

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#228c57

#8c228c · #8c2222

#578c22 · #22578c

Split-complementary

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#228c22 · #228c8c

#8c8c22 · #228c57 · #22228c

Contrast

#8c2257 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.46:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #cf3a85 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #dd73a8 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8c2257 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

#8c2257 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8c2257
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 #8c2257 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8c2257-c49cab-62cb64-2d1f20-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md