Queen's Honour is calm, warm-toned shade of warm magenta. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with cool green, cool blue or cool yellow
| Inverse Color | #74a889 |
| Complementary Color | #578b6b |
| Color Shade: | warm magenta (324.23° hue) |
| Color Temperature: | warm |
| Lightness: | 44.31% (better contrasting with white) |
If you're looking for a similar warm magenta shade, there are some better alternatives to Queen's Honour Color. The Flowering Raspberry color for instance is a lighter and a bit more faded option, however this color has a mid magenta bias. Consider a lighter and more saturated alternative called Mauve Memento (#a46a95) for more energetic effect. Try Magos as it also a bit more faded and calm.
#578b6b is the best complementary color to Queen's Honour. Cool green shades generally complement the warm magenta hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #8b5776 complementary color is Spring Leaves, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.
The analogous palette of cool magenta, warm magenta, and cool red colors offers a soft combination of similar warm shades. The analogous colors of Strikemaster are #85578b and #8b575c. Thus found on the left and right of #8b5776 on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Trendy Pink and Au Chico colors as they work well with Queen's Honour.
The split-complementary Queen's Honour palette consists of #578b85 and #5c8b57 colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#578b6b). Try Patina and Glade Green colors in combination with #8b5776, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.
The triadic palette of #8b5776 offers a combination of cool cyan and cool yellow shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Queen's Honour. Thus Smalt Blue and Highland giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.
The square color palette of Queen's Honour contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Spring Leaves, Clay Creek, and Waikawa Gray split by 90° on the color wheel. #8b5776 square combo is a palette of warm magenta, warm yellow, cool green and cool blue shades that work together well.
The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Queen's Honour tetradic combo consists of cool green complementary color (#578b6b) and two others. The Highland is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Butterfly Bush – 120° from the complementary Spring Leaves. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #768b57 and #6b578b.
In a RGB color space, hex #8b5776 is made of 40% red, 25% green and 34% blue. In a HSL mode Queen's Honour has a hue angle of 324.23°, a saturation of 23.01% and a lightness of 44.31%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #8b5776 is made of 0% cyan, 20.39% magenta, 8.24% yellow and 45.49% black ink.
| HEX | #8b5776 |
| RGB Decimal | rgb(139,87,118) |
| RGB Percentage | 40%, 25%, 34% |
| CMYK | 0, 20.39, 8.24, 45.49 |
| HSL | hsl(324.23,23.01%,44.31%) |
| HSV (or HSB) | hsv(324.23,37.41%,54.51%) |
| CIE-LAB | lab(43.6733,26.2882,-8.5902) |
| XYZ | xyz(17.3257,13.6134,18.854) |