Color

#8e55dd

#8e55dd
hex#8e55dd
rgbrgb(142, 85, 221)
hslhsl(265, 67%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.581 0.199 299.4)
Closest name: Legendary Lavender (#9d61d4)Relative luminance 0.1747

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a4dd55

#5560dd · #d255dd

#dd8e55 · #55dd8e

Split-complementary

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#ddd255 · #60dd55

#dd5560 · #a4dd55 · #55ddd2

Contrast

#8e55dd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.67:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #712ad5 as the text (7.01:1)
Aaon black
4.49:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9059de as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #ad84e7 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e55dd 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

#8e55dd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e55dd
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 #8e55dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e55dd-b19cc4-dfd54e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md