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#574053

a dark, soft magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Dark Slate Blue

Token name suggestion: Slate Fuchsia

RGB
87, 64, 83
HSL
310°, 15%, 30%
CMYK
0, 26, 5, 66
Luminance
0.0632

#574053 is a dark soft magenta / pink, 310° on the wheel and 47/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (9.28:1). As text it scores 9.28:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Slate Blue, nearest Tailwind family is zinc.

hsl(310 15% 30%)rgb(87 64 83)Base step 800AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #574053 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#574053
Hue
310°
magenta / pink
Saturation
15%
soft
Lightness
30%
dark
Brightness
34%
HSV value
Perceived
29%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0632
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
47/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
9.28:1
Closest name
Dark Slate Blue
ΔE2000 17.3
Chroma
15.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.404
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
zinc
500 · ΔE 19.3
Web-safe
#663366
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue310° of 360°
Saturation15%
Lightness30%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #574053.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool47% 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
Red32%
Green58%
Blue10%

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

Every format

HEX#574053
HEX (8-digit)#574053ff
RGBrgb(87, 64, 83)
RGBArgba(87, 64, 83, 1)
HSLhsl(310, 15%, 30%)
HSV / HSBhsv(310, 26%, 34%)
HWBhwb(310 25% 66%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 26%, 5%, 66%)
LABlab(30.2 13.6 -7.5)
LCHlch(30.2 15.6 331.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.404 0.043 332.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(7.33, 6.32, 9.02)
Decimal5718099
Display P3color(display-p3 0.341 0.251 0.325)
Web-safe#663366

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #574053;
background-color: #574053;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #574053;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#574053] bg-[#574053]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #574053;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.341, green: 0.251, blue: 0.325)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.341, green: 0.251, blue: 0.325, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#574053</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF574053)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF574053)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(83, 64, 87)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(87, 64, 83)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(87, 64, 83)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 87, 64, 83)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3412f, 0.2510f, 0.3255f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{87,64,83}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #574053 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #574053 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#493646, #E5DCE3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #574053 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: #F8F6F8;
  --brand-100: #F2EEF1;
  --brand-200: #E2D9E1;
  --brand-300: #CFBECC;
  --brand-400: #B89EB3;
  --brand-500: #A07E9A;
  --brand-600: #8D6887;
  --brand-700: #765670;
  --brand-800: #574053;
  --brand-900: #463543;
  --brand-950: #2C212A;
  --brand: #574053;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F9F6F8;
  --brand-border: #DCD0DA;
  --brand-hover: #42313F;
  --brand-pressed: #2E222C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #20181F;
    --brand-ink: #E5DCE3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8F6F8',
        100: '#F2EEF1',
        200: '#E2D9E1',
        300: '#CFBECC',
        400: '#B89EB3',
        500: '#A07E9A',
        600: '#8D6887',
        700: '#765670',
        800: '#574053',
        900: '#463543',
        950: '#2C212A',
        DEFAULT: '#574053',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8F6F8,
  '100': #F2EEF1,
  '200': #E2D9E1,
  '300': #CFBECC,
  '400': #B89EB3,
  '500': #A07E9A,
  '600': #8D6887,
  '700': #765670,
  '800': #574053,
  '900': #463543,
  '950': #2C212A,
);
$brand-base: #574053;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8F6F8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2EEF1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E2D9E1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CFBECC", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#B89EB3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#A07E9A", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#8D6887", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#765670", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#574053", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#463543", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2C212A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #574053 · 9.28:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 9.28:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.26:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #574053 as text scores 9.28:1 on white and 2.26:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F4F0F4 at 8.22:1.

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
#574053 · 9.28:1
AA on whitealready passes
#574053
The quick fox
#574053 · 9.28:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#574053
The quick fox
#8F6988 · 4.54:1
AA on black+19% L
#8F6988
The quick fox
#AC8EA7 · 7.18:1
AAA on black+32% L
#AC8EA7

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #574053 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
#574053 on white: 9.28:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#574053 on black: 2.26:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #574053 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #574053.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White9.28:1AaAa
Slate 508.87:1AaAa
Slate 1008.47:1AaAa
Slate 2007.53:1AaAa
Slate 3006.25:1AaAa
Slate 4003.62:1AaAa
Slate 5001.95:1AaAa
Slate 6001.22:1AaAa
Slate 7001.12:1AaAa
Slate 8001.58:1AaAa
Slate 9001.92:1AaAa
Black2.26:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #404554
deuteranopia · #454852
tritanopia · #594147

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. #574053 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.

#F8F6F8
#F2EEF1
#E2D9E1
#CFBECC
#B89EB3
#A07E9A
#8D6887
#765670
#574053
#463543
#2C212A
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F8F6F8Darkest = 950 · #2C212AText 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 0.011 332.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.017 332.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.026 332.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.034 332.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.040 332.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.043 332.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.043 332.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.041 332.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.037 332.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.030 332.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.024 332.5);
}

Colors that work with #574053

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#F9F6F8
Tinted page background
Border#DCD0DA
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#84617E
Captions on the surface
Accent#3F5A3D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#493646
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F4F0F4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#20181F
Dark-mode background
Hover#42313F
One step down in lightness
Pressed#2E222C
Two steps down
Disabled#967190
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#6B4064
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 #574053

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.

expressiveyouthfulwarmconfident

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

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

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

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight70/100
  • 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#405744
Analogous left#4F4057
Analogous right#574048
Split-complement 1#485740
Split-complement 2#40574F
Triadic 1#535740
Triadic 2#405357
Tetradic#574F40
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°310°

#574053 sits at 310°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red34.1%
Green25.1%
Blue32.5%
R · 0–255
87
0x57
G · 0–255
64
0x40
B · 0–255
83
0x53

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta26.4%
Yellow4.6%
Key (black)65.9%

Total ink coverage is 97%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#574053 text on a black background

contrast 2.26:1

Card sample

#574053 text on a white background

contrast 9.28:1

Card sample

#574053 on grey

8.47:1

#574053 on its own surface

8.64:1

#574053 on its dark surface

1.87:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #574053;
Background color
Panel with #574053 background
background-color: #574053;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #574053;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(87, 64, 83, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(87, 64, 83, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #574053;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #574053, #574044);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #574053, #574240);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #574053;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #574053;
caret-color: #574053;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #574053;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F4F0F4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #574053;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#574053 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #574053 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, 64, 83, 0.5)
rgb(87 64 83 / 50%)
#57405380
hsl(310 15% 30% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #574053 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#5740531a#EEECEE
20%#57405333#DDD9DD
40%#57405366#BCB3BA
60%#57405399#9A8C98
80%#574053cc#796675

Gradients from #574053

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, #7A5A75, #574053 45%, #493646);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #574053, #453334);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #574053, #405744);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #8C6785 0%, #574053 45%, #493646 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F6F8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #685674 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #694D54 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #493646 0%, transparent 65%), #574053;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #574053

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.

#574053 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

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

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 2.26:1 — lift it to #8F6988 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.

#574053, answered

What color is #574053?

#574053 is a dark soft magenta / pink, closest to Dark Slate Blue (ΔE2000 17.3). It sits at 310° on the hue wheel with 15% saturation and 30% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #574053?

rgb(87, 64, 83) — 87 red, 64 green and 83 blue out of 255, or 34.1% / 25.1% / 32.5% by channel.

What is #574053 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(310, 15%, 30%) and hsv(310, 26%, 34%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #574053 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0632 and perceived brightness is 29%, so white text on it reaches 9.28:1.

Should I use black or white text on #574053?

White. It scores 9.28:1 against #574053, versus 2.26:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #574053 accessible on a white background?

#574053 on white scores 9.28:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #574053?

#405744 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #485740 and #40574F, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #574053?

For interface work: #F9F6F8 as the surface, #DCD0DA for borders, #84617E for secondary text, #3F5A3D as an accent and #493646 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #4F4057 and #574048 stays calm, while #405744 is the loudest partner.

What is #574053 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 26%, 5%, 66%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #574053 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 47 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #57404B; nudged cooler, #533E58.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #574053?

The zinc family — its 500 step is #71717a, ΔE2000 19.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #574053 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #574053 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#574053] or text-[#574053], 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 #574053 with 50% opacity?

rgba(87, 64, 83, 0.5), or #57405380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #ABA0A9; over black, #2C202A.

Is #574053 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #663366, ΔE2000 10.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #574053 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #574053?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #7A5A75, #574053 45%, #493646). For more colour, a short hue run to #453334 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #574053 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #574053 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.