Color

#8e38ff

#8e38ff
hex#8e38ff
rgbrgb(142, 56, 255)
hslhsl(266, 100%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.574 0.268 296.3)
Closest name: Cosmic Heart (#9601f4)Relative luminance 0.158

Tints & shades

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Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9ff38

#3845ff · #f238ff

#ff8e38 · #38ff8e

Split-complementary

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#fff238 · #45ff38

#ff3845 · #a9ff38 · #38fff2

Contrast

#8e38ff as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.05:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #6a00f5 as the text (7.16:1)
Aaon black
4.16:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9747ff as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #b47aff as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (4.51:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e38ff 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

#8e38ff reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e38ff
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8e38ff and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e38ff-b29cc4-dfd74e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md