Color
#8d78ed
#8d78edrgb(141, 120, 237)hsl(251, 76%, 70%)oklch(0.646 0.169 289)Colors that go with #8d78ed
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 #8d78ed in 5 real palettes, including Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #8d78ed, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8d78ed: 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Calm's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8d78ed: 4 real palettes, including Coursera's brand system and Apple's brand system, as the accent.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
shippedLight Sky Blue is paired with #8d78ed in 4 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Sentry's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Discord's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8d78ed, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #8d78ed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
complementaryDark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #8d78ed on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #8d78ed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8d78ed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.48:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.04:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d78ed 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
#8d78ed reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8d78ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8d78ed-a89cc4-dfb34e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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