Color

#8e48ea

#8e48ea
hex#8e48ea
rgbrgb(142, 72, 234)
hslhsl(266, 79%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.573 0.23 298.6)
Closest name: Candy Grape Fizz (#7755ee)Relative luminance 0.1633

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a4ea48

#4853ea · #df48ea

#ea8e48 · #48ea8e

Split-complementary

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#eadf48 · #53ea48

#ea4853 · #a4ea48 · #48eadf

Contrast

#8e48ea as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.92:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #721be4 as the text (7.02:1)
Aaon black
4.27:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9452eb as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #b07ff0 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (4.52:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e48ea 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

#8e48ea reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e48ea
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 #8e48ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e48ea-b29cc4-dfd74e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md