Color
#8f79be
#8f79bergb(143, 121, 190)hsl(259, 35%, 61%)oklch(0.624 0.104 298)Colors that go with #8f79be
Charcoal, Amber 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #8f79be: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #8f79be in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8f79be: 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Telegram's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8f79be: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Campus, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8f79be, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8f79be in 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Retool's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #8f79be on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #8f79be: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #8f79be
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8f79be as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.72:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.65:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8f79be 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
#8f79be reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8f79be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8f79be-ad9cc4-dfc74e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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