Color

#8e7bea

#8e7bea
hex#8e7bea
rgbrgb(142, 123, 234)
hslhsl(250, 73%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.65 0.161 289)
Closest name: mediumpurple (#9370db)Relative luminance 0.2586

Colors that go with #8e7bea

Amber, Blue and Deep Sky 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

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#d8ea7b

#7ba0ea · #c57bea

#ea8d7b · #7bea8d

Split-complementary

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#eac57b · #a0ea7b

#ea7ba0 · #d8ea7b · #7beac5

Contrast

#8e7bea as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7760e6 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5134df as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.17:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9988ec as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e7bea 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

#8e7bea reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e7bea
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 #8e7bea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e7bea-a79cc4-dfb14e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md