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violet · neutral

#412f49

a deep, soft violet · neutral · closest name: Dark Slate Blue

Token name suggestion: Abyss Plum

RGB
65, 47, 73
HSL
282°, 22%, 24%
CMYK
11, 36, 0, 71
Luminance
0.0364

#412f49 is a deep soft violet, 282° on the wheel and 56/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (12.16:1). As text it scores 12.16:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Slate Blue, nearest Tailwind family is zinc.

hsl(282 22% 24%)rgb(65 47 73)Base step 900AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #412f49 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#412f49
Hue
282°
violet
Saturation
22%
soft
Lightness
24%
deep
Brightness
29%
HSV value
Perceived
22%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0364
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
56/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
12.16:1
Closest name
Dark Slate Blue
ΔE2000 15.5
Chroma
19.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.337
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
zinc
500 · ΔE 24.2
Web-safe
#333333
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue282° of 360°
Saturation22%
Lightness24%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #412f49.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool56% cool

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

Luminance by channel
Red31%
Green56%
Blue13%

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

Every format

HEX#412f49
HEX (8-digit)#412f49ff
RGBrgb(65, 47, 73)
RGBArgba(65, 47, 73, 1)
HSLhsl(282, 22%, 24%)
HSV / HSBhsv(282, 36%, 29%)
HWBhwb(282 18% 71%)
CMYKcmyk(11%, 36%, 0%, 71%)
LABlab(22.4 13.8 -13.0)
LCHlch(22.4 19.0 316.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.337 0.050 315.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(4.40, 3.64, 6.77)
Decimal4271945
Display P3color(display-p3 0.255 0.184 0.286)
Web-safe#333333

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #412f49;
background-color: #412f49;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #412f49;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#412f49] bg-[#412f49]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #412f49;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.255, green: 0.184, blue: 0.286)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.255, green: 0.184, blue: 0.286, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#412F49</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF412F49)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF412F49)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(73, 47, 65)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(65, 47, 73)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(65, 47, 73)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 65, 47, 73)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2549f, 0.1843f, 0.2863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{65,47,73}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #412f49 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #412f49 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#45324E, #E3DAE7);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #412f49 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: #F8F6F9;
  --brand-100: #F1EDF2;
  --brand-200: #E0D8E4;
  --brand-300: #CCBBD3;
  --brand-400: #B299BD;
  --brand-500: #9876A7;
  --brand-600: #856095;
  --brand-700: #6E507C;
  --brand-800: #584063;
  --brand-900: #412f49;
  --brand-950: #291F2E;
  --brand: #412f49;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F8F6F9;
  --brand-border: #DACDDF;
  --brand-hover: #2E2133;
  --brand-pressed: #1A131D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1E1622;
    --brand-ink: #E3DAE7;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8F6F9',
        100: '#F1EDF2',
        200: '#E0D8E4',
        300: '#CCBBD3',
        400: '#B299BD',
        500: '#9876A7',
        600: '#856095',
        700: '#6E507C',
        800: '#584063',
        900: '#412f49',
        950: '#291F2E',
        DEFAULT: '#412f49',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8F6F9,
  '100': #F1EDF2,
  '200': #E0D8E4,
  '300': #CCBBD3,
  '400': #B299BD,
  '500': #9876A7,
  '600': #856095,
  '700': #6E507C,
  '800': #584063,
  '900': #412f49,
  '950': #291F2E,
);
$brand-base: #412f49;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8F6F9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F1EDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E0D8E4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CCBBD3", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#B299BD", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#9876A7", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#856095", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#6E507C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#584063", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#412f49", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#291F2E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #412f49 · 12.16:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 12.16:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.73:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #412f49 as text scores 12.16:1 on white and 1.73:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F3EFF5 at 10.69:1.

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
#412f49 · 12.16:1
AA on whitealready passes
#412f49
The quick fox
#412f49 · 12.16:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#412f49
The quick fox
#8E689E · 4.62:1
AA on black+28% L
#8E689E
The quick fox
#A78BB4 · 7.00:1
AAA on black+39% L
#A78BB4

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #412F49 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
#412f49 on white: 12.16:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#412f49 on black: 1.73:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #412f49 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #412f49.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White12.16:1AaAa
Slate 5011.62:1AaAa
Slate 10011.10:1AaAa
Slate 2009.86:1AaAa
Slate 3008.19:1AaAa
Slate 4004.74:1AaAa
Slate 5002.55:1AaAa
Slate 6001.60:1AaAa
Slate 7001.17:1AaAa
Slate 8001.20:1AaAa
Slate 9001.47:1AaAa
Black1.73:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #2B354A
deuteranopia · #2F3648
tritanopia · #413238

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. #412f49 is pinned to step 900; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F8F6F9
#F1EDF2
#E0D8E4
#CCBBD3
#B299BD
#9876A7
#856095
#6E507C
#584063
#412f49
#291F2E
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #F8F6F9Darkest = 950 · #291F2EText step on white = 600
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 0.013 315.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.020 315.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.030 315.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.039 315.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.046 315.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.050 315.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.050 315.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.047 315.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.042 315.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.035 315.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.028 315.1);
}

Colors that work with #412f49

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#F8F6F9
Tinted page background
Border#DACDDF
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#7C5A8C
Captions on the surface
Accent#3E4B2D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#45324E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F3EFF5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1E1622
Dark-mode background
Hover#2E2133
One step down in lightness
Pressed#1A131D
Two steps down
Disabled#7E5B8D
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#4F305C
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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Data
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How to use #412f49

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

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • 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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. 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
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight77/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • 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#37492F
Analogous left#342F49
Analogous right#492F44
Split-complement 1#44492F
Split-complement 2#2F4934
Triadic 1#49412F
Triadic 2#2F4941
Tetradic#49342F
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°282°

#412f49 sits at 282°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red25.5%
Green18.4%
Blue28.6%
R · 0–255
65
0x41
G · 0–255
47
0x2f
B · 0–255
73
0x49

CMYK percentages

Cyan11.0%
Magenta35.6%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)71.4%

Total ink coverage is 118%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#412f49 text on a black background

contrast 1.73:1

Card sample

#412f49 text on a white background

contrast 12.16:1

Card sample

#412f49 on grey

11.10:1

#412f49 on its own surface

11.31:1

#412f49 on its dark surface

1.45:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #412f49;
Background color
Panel with #412f49 background
background-color: #412f49;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #412f49;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(65, 47, 73, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(65, 47, 73, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #412f49;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #412f49, #492F40);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #412f49, #492F39);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #412f49;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #412f49;
caret-color: #412f49;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #412f49;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F3EFF5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #412f49;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#412f49 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #412f49 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(65, 47, 73, 0.5)
rgb(65 47 73 / 50%)
#412f4980
hsl(282 22% 24% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #412f49 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#412f491a#ECEAED
20%#412f4933#D9D5DB
40%#412f4966#B3ACB6
60%#412f4999#8D8292
80%#412f49cc#67596D

Gradients from #412f49

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, #62476E, #412f49 45%, #45324E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #412f49, #36232E);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #412f49, #37492F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #735381 0%, #412f49 45%, #45324E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8F6F9, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #474368 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #5C3B53 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #45324E 0%, transparent 65%), #412f49;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #412f49

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.

#412f49 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

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

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 1.73:1 — lift it to #8E689E 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.

#412f49, answered

What color is #412f49?

#412f49 is a deep soft violet, closest to Dark Slate Blue (ΔE2000 15.5). It sits at 282° on the hue wheel with 22% saturation and 24% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #412f49?

rgb(65, 47, 73) — 65 red, 47 green and 73 blue out of 255, or 25.5% / 18.4% / 28.6% by channel.

What is #412f49 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(282, 22%, 24%) and hsv(282, 36%, 29%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #412f49 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0364 and perceived brightness is 22%, so white text on it reaches 12.16:1.

Should I use black or white text on #412f49?

White. It scores 12.16:1 against #412f49, versus 1.73:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #412f49 accessible on a white background?

#412f49 on white scores 12.16:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #412f49?

#37492F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #44492F and #2F4934, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #412f49?

For interface work: #F8F6F9 as the surface, #DACDDF for borders, #7C5A8C for secondary text, #3E4B2D as an accent and #45324E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #342F49 and #492F44 stays calm, while #37492F is the loudest partner.

What is #412f49 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(11%, 36%, 0%, 71%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #412f49 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 56 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #492F47; nudged cooler, #372E4A.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #412f49?

The zinc family — its 500 step is #71717a, ΔE2000 24.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #412f49 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #412f49 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#412f49] or text-[#412f49], 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 #412f49 with 50% opacity?

rgba(65, 47, 73, 0.5), or #412f4980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A097A4; over black, #211825.

Is #412f49 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #333333, ΔE2000 15.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #412f49 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #412f49?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #62476E, #412f49 45%, #45324E). For more colour, a short hue run to #36232E keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #412f49 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #412f49 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.