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#4f2c75

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

Token name suggestion: Shadow Iris

RGB
79, 44, 117
HSL
269°, 45%, 32%
CMYK
33, 62, 0, 54
Luminance
0.0475

#4f2c75 is a dark vivid violet, 269° on the wheel and 67/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (10.77:1). As text it scores 10.77:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Slate Blue, nearest Tailwind family is slate.

hsl(269 45% 32%)rgb(79 44 117)Base step 800AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #4f2c75 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#4f2c75
Hue
269°
violet
Saturation
45%
vivid
Lightness
32%
dark
Brightness
46%
HSV value
Perceived
26%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0475
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
67/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
10.77:1
Closest name
Dark Slate Blue
ΔE2000 6.9
Chroma
48.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.376
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
slate
500 · ΔE 23.7
Web-safe
#663366
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue269° of 360°
Saturation45%
Lightness32%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #4f2c75.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool67% 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
Red35%
Green38%
Blue27%

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

Every format

HEX#4f2c75
HEX (8-digit)#4f2c75ff
RGBrgb(79, 44, 117)
RGBArgba(79, 44, 117, 1)
HSLhsl(269, 45%, 32%)
HSV / HSBhsv(269, 62%, 46%)
HWBhwb(269 17% 54%)
CMYKcmyk(33%, 62%, 0%, 54%)
LABlab(26.0 31.8 -36.0)
LCHlch(26.0 48.1 311.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.376 0.122 303.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(7.34, 4.75, 17.36)
Decimal5188725
Display P3color(display-p3 0.310 0.173 0.459)
Web-safe#663366

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #4f2c75;
background-color: #4f2c75;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #4f2c75;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#4f2c75] bg-[#4f2c75]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #4f2c75;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.310, green: 0.173, blue: 0.459)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.310, green: 0.173, blue: 0.459, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#4F2C75</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF4F2C75)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF4F2C75)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(117, 44, 79)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(79, 44, 117)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(79, 44, 117)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 79, 44, 117)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3098f, 0.1725f, 0.4588f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{79,44,117}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #4f2c75 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #4f2c75 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3F235D, #E0D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #4f2c75 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: #EFEAF5;
  --brand-200: #DDD1EB;
  --brand-300: #C6ADE0;
  --brand-400: #A985D1;
  --brand-500: #8D5CC2;
  --brand-600: #7843B2;
  --brand-700: #643894;
  --brand-800: #4f2c75;
  --brand-900: #3C2457;
  --brand-950: #261636;
  --brand: #4f2c75;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F7F4FA;
  --brand-border: #D5C4E9;
  --brand-hover: #3E225B;
  --brand-pressed: #2C1941;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1C1424;
    --brand-ink: #E0D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F5FA',
        100: '#EFEAF5',
        200: '#DDD1EB',
        300: '#C6ADE0',
        400: '#A985D1',
        500: '#8D5CC2',
        600: '#7843B2',
        700: '#643894',
        800: '#4f2c75',
        900: '#3C2457',
        950: '#261636',
        DEFAULT: '#4f2c75',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F5FA,
  '100': #EFEAF5,
  '200': #DDD1EB,
  '300': #C6ADE0,
  '400': #A985D1,
  '500': #8D5CC2,
  '600': #7843B2,
  '700': #643894,
  '800': #4f2c75,
  '900': #3C2457,
  '950': #261636,
);
$brand-base: #4f2c75;
$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": "#EFEAF5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DDD1EB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C6ADE0", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A985D1", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#8D5CC2", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#7843B2", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#643894", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#4f2c75", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#3C2457", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#261636", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #4f2c75 · 10.77:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 10.77:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.95:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #4f2c75 as text scores 10.77:1 on white and 1.95:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F2ECF8 at 9.30:1.

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
#4f2c75 · 10.77:1
AA on whitealready passes
#4f2c75
The quick fox
#4f2c75 · 10.77:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#4f2c75
The quick fox
#8E5EC2 · 4.53:1
AA on black+25% L
#8E5EC2
The quick fox
#AB87D2 · 7.13:1
AAA on black+36% L
#AB87D2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4F2C75 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
#4f2c75 on white: 10.77:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#4f2c75 on black: 1.95:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #4f2c75 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #4f2c75.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White10.77:1AaAa
Slate 5010.30:1AaAa
Slate 1009.83:1AaAa
Slate 2008.74:1AaAa
Slate 3007.25:1AaAa
Slate 4004.20:1AaAa
Slate 5002.26:1AaAa
Slate 6001.42:1AaAa
Slate 7001.04:1AaAa
Slate 8001.36:1AaAa
Slate 9001.66:1AaAa
Black1.95:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #073D77
deuteranopia · #193D73
tritanopia · #483B4C

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. #4f2c75 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
#EFEAF5
#DDD1EB
#C6ADE0
#A985D1
#8D5CC2
#7843B2
#643894
#4f2c75
#3C2457
#261636
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F7F5FADarkest = 950 · #261636Text 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 0.030 303.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.049 303.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.073 303.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.095 303.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.112 303.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.122 303.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.122 303.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.114 303.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.102 303.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.085 303.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.067 303.1);
}

Colors that work with #4f2c75

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#F7F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#D5C4E9
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#714B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#667829
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3F235D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F2ECF8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1C1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#3E225B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#2C1941
Two steps down
Disabled#886FA3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#59298D
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #4f2c75

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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-high
  • Weight68/100
  • 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#52752C
Analogous left#2C2E75
Analogous right#742C75
Split-complement 1#75742C
Split-complement 2#2E752C
Triadic 1#754F2C
Triadic 2#2C754F
Tetradic#752C2E
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°269°

#4f2c75 sits at 269°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red31.0%
Green17.3%
Blue45.9%
R · 0–255
79
0x4f
G · 0–255
44
0x2c
B · 0–255
117
0x75

CMYK percentages

Cyan32.5%
Magenta62.4%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)54.1%

Total ink coverage is 149%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#4f2c75 text on a black background

contrast 1.95:1

Card sample

#4f2c75 text on a white background

contrast 10.77:1

Card sample

#4f2c75 on grey

9.83:1

#4f2c75 on its own surface

9.89:1

#4f2c75 on its dark surface

1.66:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #4f2c75;
Background color
Panel with #4f2c75 background
background-color: #4f2c75;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #4f2c75;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(79, 44, 117, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(79, 44, 117, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #4f2c75;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #4f2c75, #752C6A);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #4f2c75, #752C58);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #4f2c75;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #4f2c75;
caret-color: #4f2c75;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #4f2c75;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F2ECF8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #4f2c75;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#4f2c75 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #4f2c75 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, 44, 117, 0.5)
rgb(79 44 117 / 50%)
#4f2c7580
hsl(269 45% 32% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #4f2c75 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#4f2c751a#EDEAF1
20%#4f2c7533#DCD5E3
40%#4f2c7566#B9ABC8
60%#4f2c7599#9580AC
80%#4f2c75cc#725691

Gradients from #4f2c75

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, #6D3DA2, #4f2c75 45%, #3F235D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #4f2c75, #5F2451);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #4f2c75, #52752C);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #7C45B8 0%, #4f2c75 45%, #3F235D 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #3A449A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #8B3486 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3F235D 0%, transparent 65%), #4f2c75;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #4f2c75

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.

#4f2c75 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 1.95:1 — lift it to #8E5EC2 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.

#4f2c75, answered

What color is #4f2c75?

#4f2c75 is a dark vivid violet, closest to Dark Slate Blue (ΔE2000 6.9). It sits at 269° on the hue wheel with 45% saturation and 32% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #4f2c75?

rgb(79, 44, 117) — 79 red, 44 green and 117 blue out of 255, or 31% / 17.3% / 45.9% by channel.

What is #4f2c75 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(269, 45%, 32%) and hsv(269, 62%, 46%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #4f2c75 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0475 and perceived brightness is 26%, so white text on it reaches 10.77:1.

Should I use black or white text on #4f2c75?

White. It scores 10.77:1 against #4f2c75, versus 1.95:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #4f2c75 accessible on a white background?

#4f2c75 on white scores 10.77:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #4f2c75?

#52752C sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #75742C and #2E752C, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #4f2c75?

For interface work: #F7F4FA as the surface, #D5C4E9 for borders, #714B9B for secondary text, #667829 as an accent and #3F235D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #2C2E75 and #742C75 stays calm, while #52752C is the loudest partner.

What is #4f2c75 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(33%, 62%, 0%, 54%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #4f2c75 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 67 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #6A2C75; nudged cooler, #332A77.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #4f2c75?

The slate family — its 500 step is #64748b, ΔE2000 23.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #4f2c75 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #4f2c75 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#4f2c75] or text-[#4f2c75], 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 #4f2c75 with 50% opacity?

rgba(79, 44, 117, 0.5), or #4f2c7580 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A796BA; over black, #28163B.

Is #4f2c75 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #663366, ΔE2000 8.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #4f2c75 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 #4f2c75?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #6D3DA2, #4f2c75 45%, #3F235D). For more colour, a short hue run to #5F2451 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #4f2c75 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #4f2c75 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.