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#574788

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

Token name suggestion: Dusk Sapphire

RGB
87, 71, 136
HSL
255°, 31%, 41%
CMYK
36, 48, 0, 47
Luminance
0.0831

#574788 is a dark soft blue, 255° on the wheel and 73/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (7.89:1). As text it scores 7.89:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Slate Blue, nearest Tailwind family is slate.

hsl(255 31% 41%)rgb(87 71 136)Base step 700AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #574788 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#574788
Hue
255°
blue
Saturation
31%
soft
Lightness
41%
dark
Brightness
53%
HSV value
Perceived
34%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0831
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
73/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
7.89:1
Closest name
Dark Slate Blue
ΔE2000 4.5
Chroma
41.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.446
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
slate
500 · ΔE 16.8
Web-safe
#663399
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue255° of 360°
Saturation31%
Lightness41%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #574788.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool73% 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
Red24%
Green54%
Blue21%

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

Every format

HEX#574788
HEX (8-digit)#574788ff
RGBrgb(87, 71, 136)
RGBArgba(87, 71, 136, 1)
HSLhsl(255, 31%, 41%)
HSV / HSBhsv(255, 48%, 53%)
HWBhwb(255 28% 47%)
CMYKcmyk(36%, 48%, 0%, 47%)
LABlab(34.6 22.7 -34.1)
LCHlch(34.6 41.0 303.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.446 0.104 293.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(10.63, 8.31, 24.33)
Decimal5719944
Display P3color(display-p3 0.341 0.278 0.533)
Web-safe#663399

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #574788;
background-color: #574788;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #574788;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#574788] bg-[#574788]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #574788;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.341, green: 0.278, blue: 0.533)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.341, green: 0.278, blue: 0.533, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#574788</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF574788)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF574788)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(136, 71, 87)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(87, 71, 136)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(87, 71, 136)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 87, 71, 136)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3412f, 0.2784f, 0.5333f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{87,71,136}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #574788 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #574788 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#362C54, #DCD7EA);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #574788 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: #F6F5F9;
  --brand-100: #EEECF3;
  --brand-200: #D9D5E7;
  --brand-300: #BEB5D9;
  --brand-400: #9D90C5;
  --brand-500: #7D6CB2;
  --brand-600: #6754A1;
  --brand-700: #574788;
  --brand-800: #45386B;
  --brand-900: #342C4F;
  --brand-950: #211B31;
  --brand: #574788;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F6F5FA;
  --brand-border: #D0C9E3;
  --brand-hover: #483B71;
  --brand-pressed: #392F59;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #181424;
    --brand-ink: #DCD7EA;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F6F5F9',
        100: '#EEECF3',
        200: '#D9D5E7',
        300: '#BEB5D9',
        400: '#9D90C5',
        500: '#7D6CB2',
        600: '#6754A1',
        700: '#574788',
        800: '#45386B',
        900: '#342C4F',
        950: '#211B31',
        DEFAULT: '#574788',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F6F5F9,
  '100': #EEECF3,
  '200': #D9D5E7,
  '300': #BEB5D9,
  '400': #9D90C5,
  '500': #7D6CB2,
  '600': #6754A1,
  '700': #574788,
  '800': #45386B,
  '900': #342C4F,
  '950': #211B31,
);
$brand-base: #574788;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F6F5F9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEECF3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D9D5E7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#BEB5D9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#9D90C5", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#7D6CB2", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#6754A1", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#574788", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#45386B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#342C4F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#211B31", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #574788 · 7.89:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 7.89:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.66:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #574788 as text scores 7.89:1 on white and 2.66:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F0EEF6 at 6.86:1.

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
#574788 · 7.89:1
AA on whitealready passes
#574788
The quick fox
#574788 · 7.89:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#574788
The quick fox
#7C6AB1 · 4.55:1
AA on black+15% L
#7C6AB1
The quick fox
#9C8FC5 · 7.15:1
AAA on black+26% L
#9C8FC5

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #574788 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
#574788 on white: 7.89:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#574788 on black: 2.66:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #574788 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #574788.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White7.89:1AaAa
Slate 507.54:1AaAa
Slate 1007.20:1AaAa
Slate 2006.40:1AaAa
Slate 3005.31:1AaAa
Slate 4003.08:1AaAa
Slate 5001.66:1AaAa
Slate 6001.04:1AaAa
Slate 7001.31:1AaAa
Slate 8001.85:1AaAa
Slate 9002.26:1AaAa
Black2.66:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #31528A
deuteranopia · #335086
tritanopia · #4B5361

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. #574788 is pinned to step 700; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F6F5F9
#EEECF3
#D9D5E7
#BEB5D9
#9D90C5
#7D6CB2
#6754A1
#574788
#45386B
#342C4F
#211B31
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F6F5F9Darkest = 950 · #211B31Text 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 0.026 293.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.042 293.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.063 293.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.081 293.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.096 293.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.104 293.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.104 293.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.098 293.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.088 293.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.073 293.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.057 293.0);
}

Colors that work with #574788

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#F6F5FA
Tinted page background
Border#D0C9E3
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#604F97
Captions on the surface
Accent#8C8C43
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#362C54
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F0EEF6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#181424
Dark-mode background
Hover#483B71
One step down in lightness
Pressed#392F59
Two steps down
Disabled#958BB5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#5A43A1
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 #574788

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.

trustedcalmcompetentcorporate

The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed.

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

It is also the most crowded hue on the web. Distinctiveness has to come from your other choices.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight59/100
  • 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#788847
Analogous left#475788
Analogous right#784788
Split-complement 1#887847
Split-complement 2#578847
Triadic 1#885747
Triadic 2#478857
Tetradic#884757
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°255°

#574788 sits at 255°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red34.1%
Green27.8%
Blue53.3%
R · 0–255
87
0x57
G · 0–255
71
0x47
B · 0–255
136
0x88

CMYK percentages

Cyan36.0%
Magenta47.8%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)46.7%

Total ink coverage is 131%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#574788 text on a black background

contrast 2.66:1

Card sample

#574788 text on a white background

contrast 7.89:1

Card sample

#574788 on grey

7.20:1

#574788 on its own surface

7.27:1

#574788 on its dark surface

2.29:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #574788;
Background color
Panel with #574788 background
background-color: #574788;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #574788;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(87, 71, 136, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(87, 71, 136, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #574788;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #574788, #824788);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #574788, #88477D);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #574788;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #574788;
caret-color: #574788;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #574788;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F0EEF6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #574788;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#574788 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #574788 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, 71, 136, 0.5)
rgb(87 71 136 / 50%)
#57478880
hsl(255 31% 41% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #574788 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#5747881a#EEEDF3
20%#57478833#DDDAE7
40%#57478866#BCB5CF
60%#57478899#9A91B8
80%#574788cc#796CA0

Gradients from #574788

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, #7360AC, #574788 45%, #362C54);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #574788, #743D74);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #574788, #788847);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #8574B7 0%, #574788 45%, #362C54 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6F5FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #5974A9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #8F529C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #362C54 0%, transparent 65%), #574788;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #574788

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.

#574788 in the real world

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

Industries
TechnologyFinanceHealthcareEnterprise SaaS
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 2.66:1 — lift it to #7C6AB1 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.

#574788, answered

What color is #574788?

#574788 is a dark soft blue, closest to Dark Slate Blue (ΔE2000 4.5). It sits at 255° on the hue wheel with 31% saturation and 41% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #574788?

rgb(87, 71, 136) — 87 red, 71 green and 136 blue out of 255, or 34.1% / 27.8% / 53.3% by channel.

What is #574788 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(255, 31%, 41%) and hsv(255, 48%, 53%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #574788 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0831 and perceived brightness is 34%, so white text on it reaches 7.89:1.

Should I use black or white text on #574788?

White. It scores 7.89:1 against #574788, versus 2.66:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #574788 accessible on a white background?

#574788 on white scores 7.89:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #574788?

#788847 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #887847 and #578847, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #574788?

For interface work: #F6F5FA as the surface, #D0C9E3 for borders, #604F97 for secondary text, #8C8C43 as an accent and #362C54 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #475788 and #784788 stays calm, while #788847 is the loudest partner.

What is #574788 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(36%, 48%, 0%, 47%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #574788 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 73 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #6F4788; nudged cooler, #454D8A.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #574788?

The slate family — its 500 step is #64748b, ΔE2000 16.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #574788 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #574788 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#574788] or text-[#574788], 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 #574788 with 50% opacity?

rgba(87, 71, 136, 0.5), or #57478880 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #ABA3C4; over black, #2C2444.

Is #574788 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #663399, ΔE2000 7.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #574788 mean?

As a blue, it reads trusted, calm, competent. The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed. At this moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #574788?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #7360AC, #574788 45%, #362C54). For more colour, a short hue run to #743D74 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #574788 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #574788 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.