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violet · cool

#3602cc

a dark, electric violet · cool · closest name: Medium Blue

Token name suggestion: Dusk Thistle

RGB
54, 2, 204
HSL
255°, 98%, 40%
CMYK
74, 99, 0, 20
Luminance
0.0519

#3602cc is a dark electric violet, 255° on the wheel and 75/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (10.31:1). As text it scores 10.31:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Medium Blue, nearest Tailwind family is indigo.

hsl(255 98% 40%)rgb(54 2 204)Base step 700AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #3602cc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#3602cc
Hue
255°
violet
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
40%
dark
Brightness
80%
HSV value
Perceived
29%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0519
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
75/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
10.31:1
Closest name
Medium Blue
ΔE2000 2.3
Chroma
110.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.405
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
indigo
500 · ΔE 21.6
Web-safe
#3300CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue255° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness40%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #3602cc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool75% 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
Red15%
Green1%
Blue84%

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

Every format

HEX#3602cc
HEX (8-digit)#3602ccff
RGBrgb(54, 2, 204)
RGBArgba(54, 2, 204, 1)
HSLhsl(255, 98%, 40%)
HSV / HSBhsv(255, 99%, 80%)
HWBhwb(255 1% 20%)
CMYKcmyk(74%, 99%, 0%, 20%)
LABlab(27.3 67.4 -87.0)
LCHlch(27.3 110.1 307.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.405 0.252 275.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(12.44, 5.19, 57.46)
Decimal3539660
Display P3color(display-p3 0.212 0.008 0.800)
Web-safe#3300CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #3602cc;
background-color: #3602cc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #3602cc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#3602cc] bg-[#3602cc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #3602cc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.212, green: 0.008, blue: 0.800)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.212, green: 0.008, blue: 0.800, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#3602CC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF3602CC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF3602CC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(204, 2, 54)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(54, 2, 204)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(54, 2, 204)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 54, 2, 204)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2118f, 0.0078f, 0.8000f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{54,2,204}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #3602cc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #3602cc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#21017E, #DAD3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #3602cc 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: #F4F1FD;
  --brand-100: #EAE3FC;
  --brand-200: #D0C1FB;
  --brand-300: #AC90FE;
  --brand-400: #8358FD;
  --brand-500: #5921FD;
  --brand-600: #4002F2;
  --brand-700: #3602cc;
  --brand-800: #2B02A2;
  --brand-900: #220674;
  --brand-950: #150449;
  --brand: #3602cc;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F6F4FA;
  --brand-border: #CBC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #2D02A9;
  --brand-pressed: #230185;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #181424;
    --brand-ink: #DAD3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4F1FD',
        100: '#EAE3FC',
        200: '#D0C1FB',
        300: '#AC90FE',
        400: '#8358FD',
        500: '#5921FD',
        600: '#4002F2',
        700: '#3602cc',
        800: '#2B02A2',
        900: '#220674',
        950: '#150449',
        DEFAULT: '#3602cc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4F1FD,
  '100': #EAE3FC,
  '200': #D0C1FB,
  '300': #AC90FE,
  '400': #8358FD,
  '500': #5921FD,
  '600': #4002F2,
  '700': #3602cc,
  '800': #2B02A2,
  '900': #220674,
  '950': #150449,
);
$brand-base: #3602cc;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4F1FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAE3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D0C1FB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#AC90FE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#8358FD", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#5921FD", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#4002F2", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#3602cc", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2B02A2", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#220674", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#150449", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #3602cc · 10.31:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 10.31:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.04:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #3602cc as text scores 10.31:1 on white and 2.04:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #ECE6FF at 8.51:1.

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
#3602cc · 10.31:1
AA on whitealready passes
#3602cc
The quick fox
#3602cc · 10.31:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#3602cc
The quick fox
#8055FD · 4.64:1
AA on black+26% L
#8055FD
The quick fox
#A283FE · 7.21:1
AAA on black+35% L
#A283FE

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #3602CC 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
#3602cc on white: 10.31:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#3602cc on black: 2.04:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #3602cc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #3602cc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White10.31:1AaAa
Slate 509.85:1AaAa
Slate 1009.41:1AaAa
Slate 2008.36:1AaAa
Slate 3006.94:1AaAa
Slate 4004.02:1AaAa
Slate 5002.17:1AaAa
Slate 6001.36:1AaAa
Slate 7001.00:1AaAa
Slate 8001.42:1AaAa
Slate 9001.73:1AaAa
Black2.04:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0048D1
deuteranopia · #0038C9
tritanopia · #005377

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. #3602cc is pinned to step 700; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F4F1FD
#EAE3FC
#D0C1FB
#AC90FE
#8358FD
#5921FD
#4002F2
#3602cc
#2B02A2
#220674
#150449
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F4F1FDDarkest = 950 · #150449Text 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 0.063 275.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.101 275.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.151 275.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.197 275.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.232 275.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.252 275.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.252 275.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.237 275.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.212 275.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.177 275.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.139 275.4);
}

Colors that work with #3602cc

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#F6F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#CBC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#5F4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#CBCC00
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#21017E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECE6FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#181424
Dark-mode background
Hover#2D02A9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#230185
Two steps down
Disabled#958AB4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#3A00E2
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.

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How to use #3602cc

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
  • Weight60/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

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#98CC02
Analogous left#0233CC
Analogous right#9B02CC
Split-complement 1#CC9B02
Split-complement 2#33CC02
Triadic 1#CC3602
Triadic 2#02CC36
Tetradic#CC0233
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°255°

#3602cc sits at 255°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red21.2%
Green0.8%
Blue80.0%
R · 0–255
54
0x36
G · 0–255
2
0x02
B · 0–255
204
0xcc

CMYK percentages

Cyan73.5%
Magenta99.0%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)20.0%

Total ink coverage is 193%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#3602cc text on a black background

contrast 2.04:1

Card sample

#3602cc text on a white background

contrast 10.31:1

Card sample

#3602cc on grey

9.41:1

#3602cc on its own surface

9.44:1

#3602cc on its dark surface

1.75:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #3602cc;
Background color
Panel with #3602cc background
background-color: #3602cc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #3602cc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(54, 2, 204, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(54, 2, 204, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #3602cc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3602cc, #BD02CC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #3602cc, #CC02A9);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #3602cc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #3602cc;
caret-color: #3602cc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #3602cc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECE6FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #3602cc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#3602cc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #3602cc 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(54, 2, 204, 0.5)
rgb(54 2 204 / 50%)
#3602cc80
hsl(255 98% 40% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #3602cc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#3602cc1a#EBE6FA
20%#3602cc33#D7CCF5
40%#3602cc66#AF9AEB
60%#3602cc99#8667E0
80%#3602cccc#5E35D6

Gradients from #3602cc

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, #4C0FFD, #3602cc 45%, #21017E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #3602cc, #AE02AD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #3602cc, #98CC02);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #622DFD 0%, #3602cc 45%, #21017E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #0456FD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #C502EA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #21017E 0%, transparent 65%), #3602cc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #3602cc

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.

#3602cc 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

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 2.04:1 — lift it to #8055FD 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.

#3602cc, answered

What color is #3602cc?

#3602cc is a dark electric violet, closest to Medium Blue (ΔE2000 2.3). It sits at 255° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 40% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #3602cc?

rgb(54, 2, 204) — 54 red, 2 green and 204 blue out of 255, or 21.2% / 0.8% / 80% by channel.

What is #3602cc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(255, 98%, 40%) and hsv(255, 99%, 80%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #3602cc a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0519 and perceived brightness is 29%, so white text on it reaches 10.31:1.

Should I use black or white text on #3602cc?

White. It scores 10.31:1 against #3602cc, versus 2.04:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #3602cc accessible on a white background?

#3602cc on white scores 10.31:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #3602cc?

#98CC02 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #CC9B02 and #33CC02, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #3602cc?

For interface work: #F6F4FA as the surface, #CBC0ED for borders, #5F4B9B for secondary text, #CBCC00 as an accent and #21017E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #0233CC and #9B02CC stays calm, while #98CC02 is the loudest partner.

What is #3602cc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(74%, 99%, 0%, 20%). 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 #3602cc warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 75 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #8002CC; nudged cooler, #0017CE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #3602cc?

The indigo family — its 500 step is #6366f1, ΔE2000 21.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #3602cc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #3602cc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#3602cc] or text-[#3602cc], 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 #3602cc with 50% opacity?

rgba(54, 2, 204, 0.5), or #3602cc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #9B81E6; over black, #1B0166.

Is #3602cc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #3300CC, ΔE2000 0.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #3602cc 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 #3602cc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #4C0FFD, #3602cc 45%, #21017E). For more colour, a short hue run to #AE02AD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #3602cc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #3602cc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.