Color

#bc81e4

#bc81e4
hex#bc81e4
rgbrgb(188, 129, 228)
hslhsl(276, 65%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.701 0.152 310.4)
Closest name: Illicit Purple (#bf77f6)Relative luminance 0.3199

Colors that go with #bc81e4

Medium Sea Green, Amber and Charcoal 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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#a9e481

#8b81e4 · #e481da

#e4bc81 · #81e4bc

Split-complementary

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#dae481 · #81e48b

#e48b81 · #a9e481 · #81dae4

Contrast

#bc81e4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a24eda as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #8228bd as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.4:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bc81e4 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

#bc81e4 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bc81e4
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 #bc81e4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bc81e4-b99cc4-bfcb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md