Color

#8d23be

#8d23be
hex#8d23be
rgbrgb(141, 35, 190)
hslhsl(281, 69%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.503 0.225 311.7)
Closest name: Lilac Spring (#8822cc)Relative luminance 0.1058

Colors that go with #8d23be

Forest Green, Sea 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.

Real palettes that use #8d23be

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#54be23

#3f23be · #be23a1

#be8d23 · #23be8d

Split-complementary

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#a1be23 · #23be3f

#be3f23 · #54be23 · #23a1be

Contrast

#8d23be as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.74:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8922b9 as the text (7.02:1)
Aaon black
3.12:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ab41dc as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #c479e6 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d23be 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

#8d23be reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d23be
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 #8d23be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d23be-ba9fc1-b6cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md