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violet · cool

#14031f

a deep, electric violet · cool · closest name: Black

Token name suggestion: Ink Plum

RGB
20, 3, 31
HSL
276°, 82%, 7%
CMYK
36, 90, 0, 88
Luminance
0.0031

#14031f is a deep electric violet, 276° on the wheel and 63/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (19.76:1). As text it scores 19.76:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Black, nearest Tailwind family is zinc.

hsl(276 82% 7%)rgb(20 3 31)Base step 950AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #14031f is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#14031f
Hue
276°
violet
Saturation
82%
electric
Lightness
7%
deep
Brightness
12%
HSV value
Perceived
6%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0031
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
63/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
19.76:1
Closest name
Black
ΔE2000 14.5
Chroma
17.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.154
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
zinc
500 · ΔE 34.6
Web-safe
#000033
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue276° of 360°
Saturation82%
Lightness7%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #14031f.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool63% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red48%
Green21%
Blue32%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#14031f
HEX (8-digit)#14031fff
RGBrgb(20, 3, 31)
RGBArgba(20, 3, 31, 1)
HSLhsl(276, 82%, 7%)
HSV / HSBhsv(276, 90%, 12%)
HWBhwb(276 1% 88%)
CMYKcmyk(36%, 90%, 0%, 88%)
LABlab(2.8 11.1 -13.6)
LCHlch(2.8 17.5 309.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.154 0.062 310.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(0.57, 0.31, 1.33)
Decimal1311519
Display P3color(display-p3 0.078 0.012 0.122)
Web-safe#000033

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #14031f;
background-color: #14031f;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #14031f;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#14031f] bg-[#14031f]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #14031f;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.078, green: 0.012, blue: 0.122)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.078, green: 0.012, blue: 0.122, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#14031F</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF14031F)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF14031F)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(31, 3, 20)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(20, 3, 31)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(20, 3, 31)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 20, 3, 31)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0784f, 0.0118f, 0.1216f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{20,3,31}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #14031f 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #14031f 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4B0B74, #E3D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #14031f h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F8F2FC;
  --brand-100: #F2E6FA;
  --brand-200: #E3C6F6;
  --brand-300: #D199F5;
  --brand-400: #BA66F0;
  --brand-500: #A332EB;
  --brand-600: #9016DF;
  --brand-700: #7812BA;
  --brand-800: #600E95;
  --brand-900: #470F6C;
  --brand-950: #14031f;
  --brand: #14031f;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F8F4FA;
  --brand-border: #DBC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #000000;
  --brand-pressed: #000000;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1E1424;
    --brand-ink: #E3D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8F2FC',
        100: '#F2E6FA',
        200: '#E3C6F6',
        300: '#D199F5',
        400: '#BA66F0',
        500: '#A332EB',
        600: '#9016DF',
        700: '#7812BA',
        800: '#600E95',
        900: '#470F6C',
        950: '#14031f',
        DEFAULT: '#14031f',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8F2FC,
  '100': #F2E6FA,
  '200': #E3C6F6,
  '300': #D199F5,
  '400': #BA66F0,
  '500': #A332EB,
  '600': #9016DF,
  '700': #7812BA,
  '800': #600E95,
  '900': #470F6C,
  '950': #14031f,
);
$brand-base: #14031f;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8F2FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2E6FA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E3C6F6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D199F5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#BA66F0", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#A332EB", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#9016DF", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7812BA", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#600E95", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#470F6C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#14031f", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#ffffff on #14031f · 19.76:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 19.76:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.06:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #14031f as text scores 19.76:1 on white and 1.06:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F4E8FD at 16.76:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#14031f · 19.76:1
AA on whitealready passes
#14031f
The quick fox
#14031f · 19.76:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#14031f
The quick fox
#A83FEC · 4.59:1
AA on black+52% L
#A83FEC
The quick fox
#C177F2 · 7.19:1
AAA on black+64% L
#C177F2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #14031F is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#14031f on white: 19.76:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#14031f on black: 1.06:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #14031f as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #14031f.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White19.76:1AaAa
Slate 5018.89:1AaAa
Slate 10018.04:1AaAa
Slate 20016.03:1AaAa
Slate 30013.31:1AaAa
Slate 4007.71:1AaAa
Slate 5004.15:1AaAa
Slate 6002.61:1AaAa
Slate 7001.91:1AaAa
Slate 8001.35:1AaAa
Slate 9001.11:1AaAa
Black1.06:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #000920
deuteranopia · #010B1E
tritanopia · #12080F

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #14031f is pinned to step 950; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F8F2FC
#F2E6FA
#E3C6F6
#D199F5
#BA66F0
#A332EB
#9016DF
#7812BA
#600E95
#470F6C
#14031f
Base = 950Lightest = 50 · #F8F2FCDarkest = 950 · #14031fText step on white = 500
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.016 310.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.025 310.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.037 310.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.049 310.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.057 310.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.062 310.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.062 310.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.058 310.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.052 310.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.044 310.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.034 310.2);
}

Colors that work with #14031f

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#F8F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#DBC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#7B4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#152002
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4B0B74
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F4E8FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1E1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#000000
One step down in lightness
Pressed#000000
Two steps down
Disabled#4D3959
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#210234
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #14031f

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

creativepremiummodernimaginative

Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

Deep violets swallow detail on screens with poor gamma; check it on a cheap laptop panel.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight93/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityBalanced

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#0E1F03
Analogous left#06031F
Analogous right#1F031C
Split-complement 1#1C1F03
Split-complement 2#031F06
Triadic 1#1F1403
Triadic 2#031F14
Tetradic#1F0603
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°276°

#14031f sits at 276°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red7.8%
Green1.2%
Blue12.2%
R · 0–255
20
0x14
G · 0–255
3
0x03
B · 0–255
31
0x1f

CMYK percentages

Cyan35.5%
Magenta90.3%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)87.8%

Total ink coverage is 214%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#14031f text on a black background

contrast 1.06:1

Card sample

#14031f text on a white background

contrast 19.76:1

Card sample

#14031f on grey

18.04:1

#14031f on its own surface

18.18:1

#14031f on its dark surface

1.11:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #14031f;
Background color
Panel with #14031f background
background-color: #14031f;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #14031f;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(20, 3, 31, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(20, 3, 31, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #14031f;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #14031f, #1F0317);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #14031f, #1F0310);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #14031f;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #14031f;
caret-color: #14031f;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #14031f;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F4E8FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #14031f;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#14031f 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #14031f over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(20, 3, 31, 0.5)
rgb(20 3 31 / 50%)
#14031f80
hsl(276 82% 7% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #14031f 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#14031f1a#E8E6E9
20%#14031f33#D0CDD2
40%#14031f66#A19AA5
60%#14031f99#726879
80%#14031fcc#43354C

Gradients from #14031f

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #380857, #14031f 45%, #4B0B74);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #14031f, #030002);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #14031f, #0E1F03);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #4A0B73 0%, #14031f 45%, #4B0B74 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #09074E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #3B0631 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4B0B74 0%, transparent 65%), #14031f;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #14031f

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#14031f in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
Creative toolsFintechBeautyLuxury
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Very dark values collapse into each other on cheap panels — leave more lightness between your darkest steps than the numbers suggest.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 1.06:1 — lift it to #A83FEC for body text, or reserve it for fills.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#14031f, answered

What color is #14031f?

#14031f is a deep electric violet, closest to Black (ΔE2000 14.5). It sits at 276° on the hue wheel with 82% saturation and 7% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #14031f?

rgb(20, 3, 31) — 20 red, 3 green and 31 blue out of 255, or 7.8% / 1.2% / 12.2% by channel.

What is #14031f in HSL and HSV?

hsl(276, 82%, 7%) and hsv(276, 90%, 12%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #14031f a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0031 and perceived brightness is 6%, so white text on it reaches 19.76:1.

Should I use black or white text on #14031f?

White. It scores 19.76:1 against #14031f, versus 1.06:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #14031f accessible on a white background?

#14031f on white scores 19.76:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #14031f?

#0E1F03 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #1C1F03 and #031F06, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #14031f?

For interface work: #F8F4FA as the surface, #DBC0ED for borders, #7B4B9B for secondary text, #152002 as an accent and #4B0B74 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #06031F and #1F031C stays calm, while #0E1F03 is the loudest partner.

What is #14031f in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(36%, 90%, 0%, 88%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #14031f warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 63 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #1E031F; nudged cooler, #0A0320.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #14031f?

The zinc family — its 500 step is #71717a, ΔE2000 34.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #14031f as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #14031f in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#14031f] or text-[#14031f], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #14031f with 50% opacity?

rgba(20, 3, 31, 0.5), or #14031f80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #8A818F; over black, #0A0210.

Is #14031f a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #000033, ΔE2000 9.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #14031f mean?

As a violet, it reads creative, premium, modern. Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #14031f?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #380857, #14031f 45%, #4B0B74). For more colour, a short hue run to #030002 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #14031f in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #14031f at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.