Color

#8d12ba

#8d12ba
hex#8d12ba
rgbrgb(141, 18, 186)
hslhsl(284, 82%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.49 0.233 313.5)
Closest name: Lilac Spring (#8822cc)Relative luminance 0.0964

Colors that go with #8d12ba

Denim, Forest Green 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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#3fba12

#3912ba · #ba1293

#ba8d12 · #12ba8d

Split-complementary

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#93ba12 · #12ba39

#ba3912 · #3fba12 · #1293ba

Contrast

#8d12ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.17:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b72aea as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #ce6ff1 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d12ba 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

#8d12ba reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d12ba
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 #8d12ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d12ba-bc9fc1-b1cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md