Color

#8d79e7

#8d79e7
hex#8d79e7
rgbrgb(141, 121, 231)
hslhsl(251, 70%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.644 0.16 289.5)
Closest name: mediumpurple (#9370db)Relative luminance 0.2511

Colors that go with #8d79e7

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d3e779

#799ce7 · #c479e7

#e78d79 · #79e78d

Split-complementary

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#e7c479 · #9ce779

#e7799c · #d3e779 · #79e7c4

Contrast

#8d79e7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.49:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #775fe3 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #5638dc as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.02:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9c8aea as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d79e7 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

#8d79e7 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d79e7
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 #8d79e7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d79e7-a89cc4-dfb34e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md