Color

#bd8aff

#bd8aff
hex#bd8aff
rgbrgb(189, 138, 255)
hslhsl(266, 100%, 77%)
oklchoklch(0.73 0.17 302.5)
Closest name: Illicit Purple (#bf77f6)Relative luminance 0.3622

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ccff8a

#8a92ff · #f78aff

#ffbd8a · #8affbd

Split-complementary

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#fff78a · #92ff8a

#ff8a92 · #ccff8a · #8afff7

Contrast

#bd8aff as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.55:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9747ff as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #6a00f5 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.24:1passpasspassPasses 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 #bd8aff 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

#bd8aff reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bd8aff
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 #bd8aff and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bd8aff-b29cc4-dfd74e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md