Color

#8e36ec

#8e36ec
hex#8e36ec
rgbrgb(142, 54, 236)
hslhsl(269, 83%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.556 0.251 299.9)
Closest name: blueviolet (#8a2be2)Relative luminance 0.1445

Colors that go with #8e36ec

Olive 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#94ec36

#3639ec · #e936ec

#ec8e36 · #36ec8e

Split-complementary

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#ece936 · #39ec36

#ec3639 · #94ec36 · #36ece9

Contrast

#8e36ec as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.4:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7715e0 as the text (7.08:1)
Aaon black
3.89:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9949ee as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #b67cf3 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.53:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e36ec 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

#8e36ec reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e36ec
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 #8e36ec and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e36ec-b49cc4-cbcb62-2c1f2d-e9e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md