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violet · cool

#4f09df

a balanced, electric violet · cool · closest name: Blue

Token name suggestion: Atlas Amethyst

RGB
79, 9, 223
HSL
260°, 92%, 46%
CMYK
65, 96, 0, 13
Luminance
0.0719

#4f09df is a balanced electric violet, 260° on the wheel and 72/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (8.62:1). As text it scores 8.62:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Blue, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(260 92% 46%)rgb(79 9 223)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #4f09df is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#4f09df
Hue
260°
violet
Saturation
92%
electric
Lightness
46%
balanced
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
34%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0719
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
72/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
8.62:1
Closest name
Blue
ΔE2000 4.1
Chroma
114.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.450
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 18.2
Web-safe
#6600CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue260° of 360°
Saturation92%
Lightness46%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #4f09df.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool72% 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
Red23%
Green3%
Blue74%

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

Every format

HEX#4f09df
HEX (8-digit)#4f09dfff
RGBrgb(79, 9, 223)
RGBArgba(79, 9, 223, 1)
HSLhsl(260, 92%, 46%)
HSV / HSBhsv(260, 96%, 87%)
HWBhwb(260 4% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(65%, 96%, 0%, 13%)
LABlab(32.2 71.8 -89.7)
LCHlch(32.2 114.9 308.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.450 0.264 281.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(16.64, 7.18, 70.31)
Decimal5179871
Display P3color(display-p3 0.310 0.035 0.875)
Web-safe#6600CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #4f09df;
background-color: #4f09df;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #4f09df;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#4f09df] bg-[#4f09df]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #4f09df;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.310, green: 0.035, blue: 0.875)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.310, green: 0.035, blue: 0.875, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#4F09DF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF4F09DF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF4F09DF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(223, 9, 79)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(79, 9, 223)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(79, 9, 223)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 79, 9, 223)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3098f, 0.0353f, 0.8745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{79,9,223}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #4f09df 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #4f09df 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#2B057B, #DCD3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #4f09df 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: #F5F2FD;
  --brand-100: #ECE4FB;
  --brand-200: #D4C3F9;
  --brand-300: #B593FB;
  --brand-400: #905DF8;
  --brand-500: #6B27F6;
  --brand-600: #4f09df;
  --brand-700: #4508C4;
  --brand-800: #38069D;
  --brand-900: #2B0971;
  --brand-950: #1B0647;
  --brand: #4f09df;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F6F4FA;
  --brand-border: #CEC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #4308BD;
  --brand-pressed: #37069A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #191424;
    --brand-ink: #DCD3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5F2FD',
        100: '#ECE4FB',
        200: '#D4C3F9',
        300: '#B593FB',
        400: '#905DF8',
        500: '#6B27F6',
        600: '#4f09df',
        700: '#4508C4',
        800: '#38069D',
        900: '#2B0971',
        950: '#1B0647',
        DEFAULT: '#4f09df',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5F2FD,
  '100': #ECE4FB,
  '200': #D4C3F9,
  '300': #B593FB,
  '400': #905DF8,
  '500': #6B27F6,
  '600': #4f09df,
  '700': #4508C4,
  '800': #38069D,
  '900': #2B0971,
  '950': #1B0647,
);
$brand-base: #4f09df;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5F2FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#ECE4FB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D4C3F9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B593FB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#905DF8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#6B27F6", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#4f09df", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#4508C4", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#38069D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#2B0971", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1B0647", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #4f09df · 8.62:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 8.62:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.44:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #4f09df as text scores 8.62:1 on white and 2.44:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #EEE6FE at 7.13:1.

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
#4f09df · 8.62:1
AA on whitealready passes
#4f09df
The quick fox
#4f09df · 8.62:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#4f09df
The quick fox
#8851F8 · 4.58:1
AA on black+19% L
#8851F8
The quick fox
#A982FA · 7.26:1
AAA on black+29% L
#A982FA

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4F09DF 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
#4f09df on white: 8.62:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#4f09df on black: 2.44:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #4f09df as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #4f09df.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White8.62:1AaAa
Slate 508.24:1AaAa
Slate 1007.87:1AaAa
Slate 2006.99:1AaAa
Slate 3005.80:1AaAa
Slate 4003.36:1AaAa
Slate 5001.81:1AaAa
Slate 6001.14:1AaAa
Slate 7001.20:1AaAa
Slate 8001.70:1AaAa
Slate 9002.07:1AaAa
Black2.44:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0052E4
deuteranopia · #0045DC
tritanopia · #005B83

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. #4f09df is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F5F2FD
#ECE4FB
#D4C3F9
#B593FB
#905DF8
#6B27F6
#4f09df
#4508C4
#38069D
#2B0971
#1B0647
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F5F2FDDarkest = 950 · #1B0647Text 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 0.066 281.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.106 281.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.159 281.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.206 281.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.243 281.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.264 281.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.264 281.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.248 281.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.222 281.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.185 281.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.145 281.8);
}

Colors that work with #4f09df

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#CEC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#654B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#B9C903
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#2B057B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EEE6FE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#191424
Dark-mode background
Hover#4308BD
One step down in lightness
Pressed#37069A
Two steps down
Disabled#A69ABE
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#5200FC
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 #4f09df

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
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight55/100
  • 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#99DF09
Analogous left#092EDF
Analogous right#BA09DF
Split-complement 1#DFBA09
Split-complement 2#2EDF09
Triadic 1#DF4F09
Triadic 2#09DF4F
Tetradic#DF092E
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°260°

#4f09df sits at 260°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red31.0%
Green3.5%
Blue87.5%
R · 0–255
79
0x4f
G · 0–255
9
0x09
B · 0–255
223
0xdf

CMYK percentages

Cyan64.6%
Magenta96.0%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 173%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#4f09df text on a black background

contrast 2.44:1

Card sample

#4f09df text on a white background

contrast 8.62:1

Card sample

#4f09df on grey

7.87:1

#4f09df on its own surface

7.89:1

#4f09df on its dark surface

2.09:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #4f09df;
Background color
Panel with #4f09df background
background-color: #4f09df;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #4f09df;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(79, 9, 223, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(79, 9, 223, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #4f09df;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #4f09df, #DE09DF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #4f09df, #DF09AB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #4f09df;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #4f09df;
caret-color: #4f09df;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #4f09df;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EEE6FE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #4f09df;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#4f09df 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #4f09df 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(79, 9, 223, 0.5)
rgb(79 9 223 / 50%)
#4f09df80
hsl(260 92% 46% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #4f09df 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#4f09df1a#EDE6FC
20%#4f09df33#DCCEF9
40%#4f09df66#B99DF2
60%#4f09df99#956BEC
80%#4f09dfcc#723AE5

Gradients from #4f09df

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, #702FF7, #4f09df 45%, #2B057B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #4f09df, #C208B3);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #4f09df, #99DF09);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #844CF8 0%, #4f09df 45%, #2B057B 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%, #255BF6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E111F5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #2B057B 0%, transparent 65%), #4f09df;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #4f09df

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.

#4f09df 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 2.44:1 — lift it to #8851F8 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.

#4f09df, answered

What color is #4f09df?

#4f09df is a balanced electric violet, closest to Blue (ΔE2000 4.1). It sits at 260° on the hue wheel with 92% saturation and 46% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #4f09df?

rgb(79, 9, 223) — 79 red, 9 green and 223 blue out of 255, or 31% / 3.5% / 87.5% by channel.

What is #4f09df in HSL and HSV?

hsl(260, 92%, 46%) and hsv(260, 96%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #4f09df a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0719 and perceived brightness is 34%, so white text on it reaches 8.62:1.

Should I use black or white text on #4f09df?

White. It scores 8.62:1 against #4f09df, versus 2.44:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #4f09df accessible on a white background?

#4f09df on white scores 8.62:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #4f09df?

#99DF09 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #DFBA09 and #2EDF09, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #4f09df?

For interface work: #F6F4FA as the surface, #CEC0ED for borders, #654B9B for secondary text, #B9C903 as an accent and #2B057B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #092EDF and #BA09DF stays calm, while #99DF09 is the loudest partner.

What is #4f09df in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(65%, 96%, 0%, 13%). 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 #4f09df warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 72 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #9D09DF; nudged cooler, #070FE1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #4f09df?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 18.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #4f09df as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #4f09df in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#4f09df] or text-[#4f09df], 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 #4f09df with 50% opacity?

rgba(79, 9, 223, 0.5), or #4f09df80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A784EF; over black, #280570.

Is #4f09df a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #6600CC, ΔE2000 3.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #4f09df 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 #4f09df?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #702FF7, #4f09df 45%, #2B057B). For more colour, a short hue run to #C208B3 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #4f09df in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #4f09df at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.