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#570b65

a deep, electric magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Indigo

Token name suggestion: Abyss Peony

RGB
87, 11, 101
HSL
291°, 80%, 22%
CMYK
14, 89, 0, 60
Luminance
0.0321

#570b65 is a deep electric magenta / pink, 291° on the wheel and 55/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (12.80:1). As text it scores 12.80:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Indigo, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(291 80% 22%)rgb(87 11 101)Base step 900AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #570b65 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#570b65
Hue
291°
magenta / pink
Saturation
80%
electric
Lightness
22%
deep
Brightness
40%
HSV value
Perceived
23%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0321
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
55/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
12.80:1
Closest name
Indigo
ΔE2000 7
Chroma
56.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.338
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 28.9
Web-safe
#660066
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue291° of 360°
Saturation80%
Lightness22%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #570b65.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool55% 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
Red63%
Green7%
Blue29%

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

Every format

HEX#570b65
HEX (8-digit)#570b65ff
RGBrgb(87, 11, 101)
RGBArgba(87, 11, 101, 1)
HSLhsl(291, 80%, 22%)
HSV / HSBhsv(291, 89%, 40%)
HWBhwb(291 4% 60%)
CMYKcmyk(14%, 89%, 0%, 60%)
LABlab(20.9 44.6 -33.9)
LCHlch(20.9 56.0 322.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.338 0.150 320.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(6.40, 3.21, 12.59)
Decimal5704549
Display P3color(display-p3 0.341 0.043 0.396)
Web-safe#660066

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #570b65;
background-color: #570b65;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #570b65;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#570b65] bg-[#570b65]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #570b65;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.341, green: 0.043, blue: 0.396)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.341, green: 0.043, blue: 0.396, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#570B65</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF570B65)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF570B65)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(101, 11, 87)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(87, 11, 101)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(87, 11, 101)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 87, 11, 101)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3412f, 0.0431f, 0.3961f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{87,11,101}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #570b65 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #570b65 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#630C73, #EAD3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #570b65 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: #FBF3FC;
  --brand-100: #F6E6F9;
  --brand-200: #EEC6F5;
  --brand-300: #E69AF4;
  --brand-400: #DA67EF;
  --brand-500: #CD35E9;
  --brand-600: #BE18DD;
  --brand-700: #9F14B8;
  --brand-800: #7F1093;
  --brand-900: #570b65;
  --brand-950: #3A0A43;
  --brand: #570b65;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F9F4FA;
  --brand-border: #E6C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #3B0745;
  --brand-pressed: #200425;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #221424;
    --brand-ink: #EAD3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF3FC',
        100: '#F6E6F9',
        200: '#EEC6F5',
        300: '#E69AF4',
        400: '#DA67EF',
        500: '#CD35E9',
        600: '#BE18DD',
        700: '#9F14B8',
        800: '#7F1093',
        900: '#570b65',
        950: '#3A0A43',
        DEFAULT: '#570b65',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF3FC,
  '100': #F6E6F9,
  '200': #EEC6F5,
  '300': #E69AF4,
  '400': #DA67EF,
  '500': #CD35E9,
  '600': #BE18DD,
  '700': #9F14B8,
  '800': #7F1093,
  '900': #570b65,
  '950': #3A0A43,
);
$brand-base: #570b65;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F6E6F9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EEC6F5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E69AF4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#DA67EF", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#CD35E9", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#BE18DD", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#9F14B8", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#7F1093", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#570b65", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3A0A43", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #570b65 · 12.80:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 12.80:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.64:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #570b65 as text scores 12.80:1 on white and 1.64:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F9E8FD at 10.96:1.

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
#570b65 · 12.80:1
AA on whitealready passes
#570b65
The quick fox
#570b65 · 12.80:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#570b65
The quick fox
#C218E1 · 4.51:1
AA on black+27% L
#C218E1
The quick fox
#DA67EF · 7.17:1
AAA on black+45% L
#DA67EF

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #570B65 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
#570b65 on white: 12.80:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#570b65 on black: 1.64:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #570b65 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #570b65.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White12.80:1AaAa
Slate 5012.23:1AaAa
Slate 10011.68:1AaAa
Slate 20010.38:1AaAa
Slate 3008.62:1AaAa
Slate 4004.99:1AaAa
Slate 5002.69:1AaAa
Slate 6001.69:1AaAa
Slate 7001.24:1AaAa
Slate 8001.14:1AaAa
Slate 9001.40:1AaAa
Black1.64:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #002D67
deuteranopia · #163563
tritanopia · #57213A

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. #570b65 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.

#FBF3FC
#F6E6F9
#EEC6F5
#E69AF4
#DA67EF
#CD35E9
#BE18DD
#9F14B8
#7F1093
#570b65
#3A0A43
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #FBF3FCDarkest = 950 · #3A0A43Text 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 0.037 320.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.060 320.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.090 320.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.117 320.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.138 320.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.150 320.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.150 320.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.141 320.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.126 320.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.105 320.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.082 320.5);
}

Colors that work with #570b65

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#F9F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#E6C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8E4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#2F6709
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#630C73
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F9E8FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#221424
Dark-mode background
Hover#3B0745
One step down in lightness
Pressed#200425
Two steps down
Disabled#815889
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#6C067E
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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Acme LtdActive
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GlobexActive

How to use #570b65

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.

expressiveyouthfulwarmconfident

Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands.

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

Strong gendered associations in some markets — test it with the audience you actually have.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight78/100
  • 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#19650B
Analogous left#2A0B65
Analogous right#650B46
Split-complement 1#46650B
Split-complement 2#0B652A
Triadic 1#65570B
Triadic 2#0B6557
Tetradic#652A0B
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°291°

#570b65 sits at 291°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red34.1%
Green4.3%
Blue39.6%
R · 0–255
87
0x57
G · 0–255
11
0x0b
B · 0–255
101
0x65

CMYK percentages

Cyan13.9%
Magenta89.1%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)60.4%

Total ink coverage is 163%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#570b65 text on a black background

contrast 1.64:1

Card sample

#570b65 text on a white background

contrast 12.80:1

Card sample

#570b65 on grey

11.68:1

#570b65 on its own surface

11.79:1

#570b65 on its dark surface

1.37:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #570b65;
Background color
Panel with #570b65 background
background-color: #570b65;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #570b65;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(87, 11, 101, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(87, 11, 101, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #570b65;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #570b65, #650B37);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #570b65, #650B20);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #570b65;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #570b65;
caret-color: #570b65;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #570b65;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F9E8FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #570b65;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#570b65 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #570b65 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(87, 11, 101, 0.5)
rgb(87 11 101 / 50%)
#570b6580
hsl(291 80% 22% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #570b65 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#570b651a#EEE7F0
20%#570b6533#DDCEE0
40%#570b6566#BC9DC1
60%#570b6599#9A6DA3
80%#570b65cc#793C84

Gradients from #570b65

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, #87119C, #570b65 45%, #630C73);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #570b65, #4A0823);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #570b65, #19650B);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #9F14B8 0%, #570b65 45%, #630C73 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #321093 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #810E50 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #630C73 0%, transparent 65%), #570b65;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #570b65

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.

#570b65 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
BeautyFashionLifestyleYouth brands
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

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 1.64:1 — lift it to #C218E1 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.

#570b65, answered

What color is #570b65?

#570b65 is a deep electric magenta / pink, closest to Indigo (ΔE2000 7). It sits at 291° on the hue wheel with 80% saturation and 22% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #570b65?

rgb(87, 11, 101) — 87 red, 11 green and 101 blue out of 255, or 34.1% / 4.3% / 39.6% by channel.

What is #570b65 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(291, 80%, 22%) and hsv(291, 89%, 40%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #570b65 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0321 and perceived brightness is 23%, so white text on it reaches 12.80:1.

Should I use black or white text on #570b65?

White. It scores 12.80:1 against #570b65, versus 1.64:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #570b65 accessible on a white background?

#570b65 on white scores 12.80:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #570b65?

#19650B sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #46650B and #0B652A, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #570b65?

For interface work: #F9F4FA as the surface, #E6C0ED for borders, #8E4B9B for secondary text, #2F6709 as an accent and #630C73 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #2A0B65 and #650B46 stays calm, while #19650B is the loudest partner.

What is #570b65 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(14%, 89%, 0%, 60%). 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 #570b65 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 55 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #650B52; nudged cooler, #360A66.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #570b65?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 28.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #570b65 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #570b65 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#570b65] or text-[#570b65], 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 #570b65 with 50% opacity?

rgba(87, 11, 101, 0.5), or #570b6580 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #AB85B2; over black, #2C0633.

Is #570b65 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #660066, ΔE2000 3.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #570b65 mean?

As a magenta / pink, it reads expressive, youthful, warm. Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #570b65?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #87119C, #570b65 45%, #630C73). For more colour, a short hue run to #4A0823 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #570b65 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #570b65 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.