Color

#8e79cd

#8e79cd
hex#8e79cd
rgbrgb(142, 121, 205)
hslhsl(255, 46%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.631 0.125 294)
Closest name: mediumpurple (#9370db)Relative luminance 0.2383

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b8cd79

#798ecd · #b879cd

#cd8e79 · #79cd8e

Split-complementary

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#cdb879 · #8ecd79

#cd798e · #b8cd79 · #79cdb8

Contrast

#8e79cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.64:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7e66c7 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #6043b6 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (4.53:1)
Aaon black
5.77:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9e8cd4 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e79cd 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

#8e79cd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e79cd
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 #8e79cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e79cd-ab9cc4-dfbd4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md