Color

#8e79e2

#8e79e2
hex#8e79e2
rgbrgb(142, 121, 226)
hslhsl(252, 64%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.642 0.153 290.6)
Closest name: mediumpurple (#9370db)Relative luminance 0.2492

Colors that go with #8e79e2

Olive Drab, Amber and Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#cde279

#7999e2 · #c279e2

#e28e79 · #79e28e

Split-complementary

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#e2c279 · #99e279

#e27999 · #cde279 · #79e2c2

Contrast

#8e79e2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.51:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7960dc as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #593ad4 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
5.98:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9c8ae5 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e79e2 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

#8e79e2 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e79e2
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

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

analyze #8e79e2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e79e2-a99cc4-dfb64e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md