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#633ffe

a balanced, electric blue · cool · closest name: Blue Violet

Token name suggestion: Signal Sapphire

RGB
99, 63, 254
HSL
251°, 99%, 62%
CMYK
61, 75, 0, 0
Luminance
0.1336

#633ffe is a balanced electric blue, 251° on the wheel and 77/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.72:1). As text it scores 5.72:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Blue Violet, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(251 99% 62%)rgb(99 63 254)Base step 400AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #633ffe is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#633ffe
Hue
251°
blue
Saturation
99%
electric
Lightness
62%
balanced
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
44%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1336
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
77/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
5.72:1
Closest name
Blue Violet
ΔE2000 6.9
Chroma
109.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.540
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 9.2
Web-safe
#6633FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue251° of 360°
Saturation99%
Lightness62%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #633ffe.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool77% 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
Red20%
Green27%
Blue54%

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

Every format

HEX#633ffe
HEX (8-digit)#633ffeff
RGBrgb(99, 63, 254)
RGBArgba(99, 63, 254, 1)
HSLhsl(251, 99%, 62%)
HSV / HSBhsv(251, 75%, 100%)
HWBhwb(251 25% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(61%, 75%, 0%, 0%)
LABlab(43.3 63.9 -88.9)
LCHlch(43.3 109.5 305.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.540 0.262 281.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(24.81, 13.36, 95.02)
Decimal6504446
Display P3color(display-p3 0.388 0.247 0.996)
Web-safe#6633FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #633ffe;
background-color: #633ffe;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #633ffe;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#633ffe] bg-[#633ffe]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #633ffe;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.388, green: 0.247, blue: 0.996)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.388, green: 0.247, blue: 0.996, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#633FFE</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF633FFE)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF633FFE)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(254, 63, 99)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(99, 63, 254)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(99, 63, 254)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 99, 63, 254)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3882f, 0.2471f, 0.9961f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{99,63,254}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #633ffe 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #633ffe 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#18017F, #D8D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #633ffe 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: #F3F1FE;
  --brand-100: #E8E3FC;
  --brand-200: #CBC0FB;
  --brand-300: #A48FFE;
  --brand-400: #633ffe;
  --brand-500: #4A20FE;
  --brand-600: #2F01F4;
  --brand-700: #2701CB;
  --brand-800: #1F01A2;
  --brand-900: #1A0575;
  --brand-950: #110349;
  --brand: #633ffe;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F5F4FA;
  --brand-border: #C8C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #461CFE;
  --brand-pressed: #2F01F5;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #171424;
    --brand-ink: #D8D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3F1FE',
        100: '#E8E3FC',
        200: '#CBC0FB',
        300: '#A48FFE',
        400: '#633ffe',
        500: '#4A20FE',
        600: '#2F01F4',
        700: '#2701CB',
        800: '#1F01A2',
        900: '#1A0575',
        950: '#110349',
        DEFAULT: '#633ffe',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3F1FE,
  '100': #E8E3FC,
  '200': #CBC0FB,
  '300': #A48FFE,
  '400': #633ffe,
  '500': #4A20FE,
  '600': #2F01F4,
  '700': #2701CB,
  '800': #1F01A2,
  '900': #1A0575,
  '950': #110349,
);
$brand-base: #633ffe;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3F1FE", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8E3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CBC0FB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A48FFE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#633ffe", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4A20FE", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#2F01F4", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#2701CB", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#1F01A2", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1A0575", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#110349", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #633ffe · 5.72:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.72:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.67:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #633ffe as text scores 5.72:1 on white and 3.67:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #EAE6FF at 4.70:1.

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
#633ffe · 5.72:1
AA on whitealready passes
#633ffe
The quick fox
#4A21FE · 7.14:1
AAA on white−6% L
#4A21FE
The quick fox
#7859FE · 4.66:1
AA on black+5% L
#7859FE
The quick fox
#9D86FE · 7.27:1
AAA on black+14% L
#9D86FE

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #633FFE 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
#633ffe on white: 5.72:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#633ffe on black: 3.67:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #633ffe as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #633ffe.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.72:1AaAa
Slate 505.46:1AaAa
Slate 1005.22:1AaAa
Slate 2004.64:1AaAa
Slate 3003.85:1AaAa
Slate 4002.23:1AaAa
Slate 5001.20:1AaAa
Slate 6001.33:1AaAa
Slate 7001.81:1AaAa
Slate 8002.56:1AaAa
Slate 9003.12:1AaAa
Black3.67:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #006DFF
deuteranopia · #005FFB
tritanopia · #00769D

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. #633ffe is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F3F1FE
#E8E3FC
#CBC0FB
#A48FFE
#633ffe
#4A20FE
#2F01F4
#2701CB
#1F01A2
#1A0575
#110349
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F3F1FEDarkest = 950 · #110349Text step on white = 400
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 0.065 281.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.105 281.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.157 281.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.204 281.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.241 281.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.262 281.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.262 281.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.246 281.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.220 281.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.183 281.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.144 281.7);
}

Colors that work with #633ffe

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#F5F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#C8C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#5A4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#CCBF00
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#18017F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAE6FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#171424
Dark-mode background
Hover#461CFE
One step down in lightness
Pressed#2F01F5
Two steps down
Disabled#D1CEE0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#7353FF
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.

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How to use #633ffe

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
  • 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.

trustedcalmcompetentcorporate

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

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

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight38/100
  • 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#DAFE3F
Analogous left#3F7BFE
Analogous right#C33FFE
Split-complement 1#FEC33F
Split-complement 2#7BFE3F
Triadic 1#FE633F
Triadic 2#3FFE63
Tetradic#FE3F7B
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°251°

#633ffe sits at 251°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red38.8%
Green24.7%
Blue99.6%
R · 0–255
99
0x63
G · 0–255
63
0x3f
B · 0–255
254
0xfe

CMYK percentages

Cyan61.0%
Magenta75.2%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 137%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#633ffe text on a black background

contrast 3.67:1

Card sample

#633ffe text on a white background

contrast 5.72:1

Card sample

#633ffe on grey

5.22:1

#633ffe on its own surface

5.23:1

#633ffe on its dark surface

3.16:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #633ffe;
Background color
Panel with #633ffe background
background-color: #633ffe;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #633ffe;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(99, 63, 254, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(99, 63, 254, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #633ffe;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #633ffe, #E23FFE);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #633ffe, #FE3FEA);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #633ffe;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #633ffe;
caret-color: #633ffe;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #633ffe;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAE6FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #633ffe;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#633ffe 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #633ffe 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(99, 63, 254, 0.5)
rgb(99 63 254 / 50%)
#633ffe80
hsl(251 99% 62% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #633ffe 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#633ffe1a#EFECFF
20%#633ffe33#E0D9FF
40%#633ffe66#C1B2FF
60%#633ffe99#A18CFE
80%#633ffecc#8265FE

Gradients from #633ffe

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, #957CFE, #633ffe 45%, #18017F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #633ffe, #F021FE);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #633ffe, #DAFE3F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #AD9BFE 0%, #633ffe 45%, #18017F 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #72A9FE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DA5EFE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #18017F 0%, transparent 65%), #633ffe;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #633ffe

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.

#633ffe 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

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 3.67:1 — lift it to #7859FE 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.

#633ffe, answered

What color is #633ffe?

#633ffe is a balanced electric blue, closest to Blue Violet (ΔE2000 6.9). It sits at 251° on the hue wheel with 99% saturation and 62% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #633ffe?

rgb(99, 63, 254) — 99 red, 63 green and 254 blue out of 255, or 38.8% / 24.7% / 99.6% by channel.

What is #633ffe in HSL and HSV?

hsl(251, 99%, 62%) and hsv(251, 75%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #633ffe a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1336 and perceived brightness is 44%, so white text on it reaches 5.72:1.

Should I use black or white text on #633ffe?

White. It scores 5.72:1 against #633ffe, versus 3.67:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #633ffe accessible on a white background?

#633ffe on white scores 5.72:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #633ffe?

#DAFE3F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FEC33F and #7BFE3F, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #633ffe?

For interface work: #F5F4FA as the surface, #C8C0ED for borders, #5A4B9B for secondary text, #CCBF00 as an accent and #18017F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #3F7BFE and #C33FFE stays calm, while #DAFE3F is the loudest partner.

What is #633ffe in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(61%, 75%, 0%, 0%). 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 #633ffe warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 77 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #A93FFE; nudged cooler, #3E5DFF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #633ffe?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 9.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #633ffe as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #633ffe in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#633ffe] or text-[#633ffe], 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 #633ffe with 50% opacity?

rgba(99, 63, 254, 0.5), or #633ffe80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B19FFF; over black, #32207F.

Is #633ffe a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #6633FF, ΔE2000 2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #633ffe 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 chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #633ffe?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #957CFE, #633ffe 45%, #18017F). For more colour, a short hue run to #F021FE keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #633ffe in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #633ffe at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.