Color

#8e56d2

#8e56d2
hex#8e56d2
rgbrgb(142, 86, 210)
hslhsl(267, 58%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.575 0.185 301.7)
Closest name: Legendary Lavender (#9d61d4)Relative luminance 0.1706

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ad256

#565cd2 · #cc56d2

#d28e56 · #56d28e

Split-complementary

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#d2cc56 · #5cd256

#d2565c · #9ad256 · #56d2cc

Contrast

#8e56d2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.76:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7333c1 as the text (7.06:1)
Aaon black
4.41:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #905ad3 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #ae86df as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (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 #8e56d2 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

#8e56d2 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e56d2
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 #8e56d2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e56d2-b39cc4-dfda4e-2c1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md