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violet · cool

#453067

a dark, soft violet · cool · closest name: Dark Slate Blue

Token name suggestion: Slate Iris

RGB
69, 48, 103
HSL
263°, 36%, 30%
CMYK
33, 53, 0, 60
Luminance
0.0436

#453067 is a dark soft violet, 263° on the wheel and 71/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (11.22:1). As text it scores 11.22:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Slate Blue, nearest Tailwind family is slate.

hsl(263 36% 30%)rgb(69 48 103)Base step 800AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #453067 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#453067
Hue
263°
violet
Saturation
36%
soft
Lightness
30%
dark
Brightness
40%
HSV value
Perceived
25%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0436
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
71/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
11.22:1
Closest name
Dark Slate Blue
ΔE2000 7.6
Chroma
36.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.361
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
slate
500 · ΔE 23.8
Web-safe
#333366
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue263° of 360°
Saturation36%
Lightness30%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #453067.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool71% 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
Red29%
Green49%
Blue22%

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

Every format

HEX#453067
HEX (8-digit)#453067ff
RGBrgb(69, 48, 103)
RGBArgba(69, 48, 103, 1)
HSLhsl(263, 36%, 30%)
HSV / HSBhsv(263, 53%, 40%)
HWBhwb(263 19% 60%)
CMYKcmyk(33%, 53%, 0%, 60%)
LABlab(24.8 22.7 -29.0)
LCHlch(24.8 36.8 308.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.361 0.094 299.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(5.96, 4.36, 13.36)
Decimal4534375
Display P3color(display-p3 0.271 0.188 0.404)
Web-safe#333366

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #453067;
background-color: #453067;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #453067;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#453067] bg-[#453067]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #453067;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.271, green: 0.188, blue: 0.404)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.271, green: 0.188, blue: 0.404, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#453067</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF453067)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF453067)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(103, 48, 69)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(69, 48, 103)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(69, 48, 103)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 69, 48, 103)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2706f, 0.1882f, 0.4039f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{69,48,103}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #453067 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #453067 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3A2957, #DED5EC);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #453067 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: #F7F5FA;
  --brand-100: #EFEBF4;
  --brand-200: #DBD3E8;
  --brand-300: #C2B2DB;
  --brand-400: #A48CC9;
  --brand-500: #8566B8;
  --brand-600: #704EA7;
  --brand-700: #5D418B;
  --brand-800: #453067;
  --brand-900: #382952;
  --brand-950: #231933;
  --brand: #453067;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F7F5FA;
  --brand-border: #D3C7E5;
  --brand-hover: #35254F;
  --brand-pressed: #241936;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1A1424;
    --brand-ink: #DED5EC;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F5FA',
        100: '#EFEBF4',
        200: '#DBD3E8',
        300: '#C2B2DB',
        400: '#A48CC9',
        500: '#8566B8',
        600: '#704EA7',
        700: '#5D418B',
        800: '#453067',
        900: '#382952',
        950: '#231933',
        DEFAULT: '#453067',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F5FA,
  '100': #EFEBF4,
  '200': #DBD3E8,
  '300': #C2B2DB,
  '400': #A48CC9,
  '500': #8566B8,
  '600': #704EA7,
  '700': #5D418B,
  '800': #453067,
  '900': #382952,
  '950': #231933,
);
$brand-base: #453067;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F5FA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFEBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DBD3E8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C2B2DB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A48CC9", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#8566B8", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#704EA7", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5D418B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#453067", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#382952", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#231933", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #453067 · 11.22:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 11.22:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.87:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #453067 as text scores 11.22:1 on white and 1.87:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F1EEF7 at 9.78:1.

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
#453067 · 11.22:1
AA on whitealready passes
#453067
The quick fox
#453067 · 11.22:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#453067
The quick fox
#8465B7 · 4.53:1
AA on black+26% L
#8465B7
The quick fox
#A28BC9 · 7.07:1
AAA on black+37% L
#A28BC9

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #453067 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
#453067 on white: 11.22:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#453067 on black: 1.87:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #453067 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #453067.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White11.22:1AaAa
Slate 5010.72:1AaAa
Slate 10010.24:1AaAa
Slate 2009.10:1AaAa
Slate 3007.56:1AaAa
Slate 4004.38:1AaAa
Slate 5002.36:1AaAa
Slate 6001.48:1AaAa
Slate 7001.08:1AaAa
Slate 8001.30:1AaAa
Slate 9001.59:1AaAa
Black1.87:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #1D3B69
deuteranopia · #223A66
tritanopia · #3E3A46

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. #453067 is pinned to step 800; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F7F5FA
#EFEBF4
#DBD3E8
#C2B2DB
#A48CC9
#8566B8
#704EA7
#5D418B
#453067
#382952
#231933
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F7F5FADarkest = 950 · #231933Text 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 0.023 299.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.037 299.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.056 299.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.073 299.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.086 299.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.094 299.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.094 299.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.088 299.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.079 299.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.066 299.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.052 299.3);
}

Colors that work with #453067

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#F7F5FA
Tinted page background
Border#D3C7E5
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#694B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#626A2D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3A2957
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1EEF7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1A1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#35254F
One step down in lightness
Pressed#241936
Two steps down
Disabled#7D689F
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#4C2E7D
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
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #453067

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
  • Weight70/100
  • 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#526730
Analogous left#303767
Analogous right#603067
Split-complement 1#676030
Split-complement 2#376730
Triadic 1#674530
Triadic 2#306745
Tetradic#673037
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°263°

#453067 sits at 263°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red27.1%
Green18.8%
Blue40.4%
R · 0–255
69
0x45
G · 0–255
48
0x30
B · 0–255
103
0x67

CMYK percentages

Cyan33.0%
Magenta53.4%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)59.6%

Total ink coverage is 146%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#453067 text on a black background

contrast 1.87:1

Card sample

#453067 text on a white background

contrast 11.22:1

Card sample

#453067 on grey

10.24:1

#453067 on its own surface

10.36:1

#453067 on its dark surface

1.60:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #453067;
Background color
Panel with #453067 background
background-color: #453067;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #453067;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(69, 48, 103, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(69, 48, 103, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #453067;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #453067, #673064);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #453067, #673057);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #453067;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #453067;
caret-color: #453067;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #453067;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1EEF7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #453067;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#453067 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #453067 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(69, 48, 103, 0.5)
rgb(69 48 103 / 50%)
#45306780
hsl(263 36% 30% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #453067 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#4530671a#ECEAF0
20%#45306733#DAD6E1
40%#45306766#B5ACC2
60%#45306799#8F83A4
80%#453067cc#6A5985

Gradients from #453067

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, #614391, #453067 45%, #3A2957);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #453067, #52264C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #453067, #526730);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #6F4DA6 0%, #453067 45%, #3A2957 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7F5FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #404F8A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #7A3A7C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3A2957 0%, transparent 65%), #453067;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #453067

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.

#453067 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 1.87:1 — lift it to #8465B7 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.

#453067, answered

What color is #453067?

#453067 is a dark soft violet, closest to Dark Slate Blue (ΔE2000 7.6). It sits at 263° on the hue wheel with 36% saturation and 30% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #453067?

rgb(69, 48, 103) — 69 red, 48 green and 103 blue out of 255, or 27.1% / 18.8% / 40.4% by channel.

What is #453067 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(263, 36%, 30%) and hsv(263, 53%, 40%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #453067 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0436 and perceived brightness is 25%, so white text on it reaches 11.22:1.

Should I use black or white text on #453067?

White. It scores 11.22:1 against #453067, versus 1.87:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #453067 accessible on a white background?

#453067 on white scores 11.22:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #453067?

#526730 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #676030 and #376730, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #453067?

For interface work: #F7F5FA as the surface, #D3C7E5 for borders, #694B9B for secondary text, #626A2D as an accent and #3A2957 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #303767 and #603067 stays calm, while #526730 is the loudest partner.

What is #453067 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(33%, 53%, 0%, 60%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #453067 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 71 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #593067; nudged cooler, #2F2E68.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #453067?

The slate family — its 500 step is #64748b, ΔE2000 23.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #453067 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #453067 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#453067] or text-[#453067], 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 #453067 with 50% opacity?

rgba(69, 48, 103, 0.5), or #45306780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A298B3; over black, #231834.

Is #453067 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #333366, ΔE2000 5.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #453067 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 #453067?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #614391, #453067 45%, #3A2957). For more colour, a short hue run to #52264C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #453067 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #453067 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.