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#65166a

a dark, vivid magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Purple

Token name suggestion: Forest Ruby

RGB
101, 22, 106
HSL
296°, 66%, 25%
CMYK
5, 79, 0, 58
Luminance
0.0438

#65166a is a dark vivid magenta / pink, 296° on the wheel and 52/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (11.19:1). As text it scores 11.19:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Purple, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(296 66% 25%)rgb(101 22 106)Base step 900AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #65166a is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#65166a
Hue
296°
magenta / pink
Saturation
66%
vivid
Lightness
25%
dark
Brightness
42%
HSV value
Perceived
27%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0438
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
52/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
11.19:1
Closest name
Purple
ΔE2000 5.5
Chroma
54.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.372
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 27.2
Web-safe
#660066
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue296° of 360°
Saturation66%
Lightness25%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #65166a.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool52% 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%
Green13%
Blue24%

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

Every format

HEX#65166a
HEX (8-digit)#65166aff
RGBrgb(101, 22, 106)
RGBArgba(101, 22, 106, 1)
HSLhsl(296, 66%, 25%)
HSV / HSBhsv(296, 79%, 42%)
HWBhwb(296 9% 58%)
CMYKcmyk(5%, 79%, 0%, 58%)
LABlab(24.9 45.2 -30.5)
LCHlch(24.9 54.5 325.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.372 0.150 325.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(8.26, 4.38, 14.04)
Decimal6624874
Display P3color(display-p3 0.396 0.086 0.416)
Web-safe#660066

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #65166a;
background-color: #65166a;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #65166a;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#65166a] bg-[#65166a]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #65166a;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.396, green: 0.086, blue: 0.416)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.396, green: 0.086, blue: 0.416, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#65166A</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF65166A)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF65166A)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(106, 22, 101)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(101, 22, 106)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(101, 22, 106)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 101, 22, 106)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3961f, 0.0863f, 0.4157f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{101,22,106}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #65166a 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #65166a 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#65166A, #EDD3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #65166a 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: #FBF3FB;
  --brand-100: #F7E8F8;
  --brand-200: #EFCBF1;
  --brand-300: #E7A2EC;
  --brand-400: #DB74E2;
  --brand-500: #D045D8;
  --brand-600: #C12ACB;
  --brand-700: #A123A9;
  --brand-800: #811C87;
  --brand-900: #65166a;
  --brand-950: #3B0F3D;
  --brand: #65166a;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EAC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #49104C;
  --brand-pressed: #2D0A2F;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #231424;
    --brand-ink: #EDD3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF3FB',
        100: '#F7E8F8',
        200: '#EFCBF1',
        300: '#E7A2EC',
        400: '#DB74E2',
        500: '#D045D8',
        600: '#C12ACB',
        700: '#A123A9',
        800: '#811C87',
        900: '#65166a',
        950: '#3B0F3D',
        DEFAULT: '#65166a',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF3FB,
  '100': #F7E8F8,
  '200': #EFCBF1,
  '300': #E7A2EC,
  '400': #DB74E2,
  '500': #D045D8,
  '600': #C12ACB,
  '700': #A123A9,
  '800': #811C87,
  '900': #65166a,
  '950': #3B0F3D,
);
$brand-base: #65166a;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF3FB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7E8F8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EFCBF1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E7A2EC", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#DB74E2", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D045D8", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#C12ACB", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A123A9", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#811C87", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#65166a", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3B0F3D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #65166a · 11.19:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 11.19:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.88:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #65166a as text scores 11.19:1 on white and 1.88:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FAEAFB at 9.71:1.

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
#65166a · 11.19:1
AA on whitealready passes
#65166a
The quick fox
#65166a · 11.19:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#65166a
The quick fox
#C52BCF · 4.62:1
AA on black+24% L
#C52BCF
The quick fox
#D96CE0 · 7.17:1
AAA on black+40% L
#D96CE0

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #65166A 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
#65166a on white: 11.19:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#65166a on black: 1.88:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #65166a as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #65166a.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White11.19:1AaAa
Slate 5010.70:1AaAa
Slate 10010.22:1AaAa
Slate 2009.08:1AaAa
Slate 3007.54:1AaAa
Slate 4004.37:1AaAa
Slate 5002.35:1AaAa
Slate 6001.48:1AaAa
Slate 7001.08:1AaAa
Slate 8001.31:1AaAa
Slate 9001.60:1AaAa
Black1.88:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #00356C
deuteranopia · #293E68
tritanopia · #67253F

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. #65166a 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.

#FBF3FB
#F7E8F8
#EFCBF1
#E7A2EC
#DB74E2
#D045D8
#C12ACB
#A123A9
#811C87
#65166a
#3B0F3D
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #FBF3FBDarkest = 950 · #3B0F3DText 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 0.037 325.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.060 325.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.090 325.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.117 325.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.138 325.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.150 325.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.150 325.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.141 325.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.126 325.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.105 325.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.082 325.4);
}

Colors that work with #65166a

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#FAF4FA
Tinted page background
Border#EAC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#964B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#2F6D13
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#65166A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAEAFB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#231424
Dark-mode background
Hover#49104C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#2D0A2F
Two steps down
Disabled#8F5E93
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#7C1282
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 #65166a

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.

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

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

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight75/100
  • 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#1B6A16
Analogous left#3B166A
Analogous right#6A1645
Split-complement 1#456A16
Split-complement 2#166A3B
Triadic 1#6A6516
Triadic 2#166A65
Tetradic#6A3B16
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°296°

#65166a sits at 296°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red39.6%
Green8.6%
Blue41.6%
R · 0–255
101
0x65
G · 0–255
22
0x16
B · 0–255
106
0x6a

CMYK percentages

Cyan4.7%
Magenta79.2%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)58.4%

Total ink coverage is 142%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#65166a text on a black background

contrast 1.88:1

Card sample

#65166a text on a white background

contrast 11.19:1

Card sample

#65166a on grey

10.22:1

#65166a on its own surface

10.33:1

#65166a on its dark surface

1.57:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #65166a;
Background color
Panel with #65166a background
background-color: #65166a;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #65166a;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(101, 22, 106, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(101, 22, 106, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #65166a;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #65166a, #6A1637);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #65166a, #6A1622);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #65166a;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #65166a;
caret-color: #65166a;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #65166a;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAEAFB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #65166a;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#65166a 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #65166a 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(101, 22, 106, 0.5)
rgb(101 22 106 / 50%)
#65166a80
hsl(296 66% 25% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #65166a 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#65166a1a#F0E8F0
20%#65166a33#E0D0E1
40%#65166a66#C1A2C3
60%#65166a99#A373A6
80%#65166acc#844588

Gradients from #65166a

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, #95219D, #65166a 45%, #65166A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #65166a, #511125);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #65166a, #1B6A16);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #AD26B6 0%, #65166a 45%, #65166A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #491F94 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #831B4D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #65166A 0%, transparent 65%), #65166a;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #65166a

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.

#65166a 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

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 1.88:1 — lift it to #C52BCF 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.

#65166a, answered

What color is #65166a?

#65166a is a dark vivid magenta / pink, closest to Purple (ΔE2000 5.5). It sits at 296° on the hue wheel with 66% saturation and 25% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #65166a?

rgb(101, 22, 106) — 101 red, 22 green and 106 blue out of 255, or 39.6% / 8.6% / 41.6% by channel.

What is #65166a in HSL and HSV?

hsl(296, 66%, 25%) and hsv(296, 79%, 42%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #65166a a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0438 and perceived brightness is 27%, so white text on it reaches 11.19:1.

Should I use black or white text on #65166a?

White. It scores 11.19:1 against #65166a, versus 1.88:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #65166a accessible on a white background?

#65166a on white scores 11.19:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #65166a?

#1B6A16 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #456A16 and #166A3B, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #65166a?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EAC0ED for borders, #964B9B for secondary text, #2F6D13 as an accent and #65166A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #3B166A and #6A1645 stays calm, while #1B6A16 is the loudest partner.

What is #65166a in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(5%, 79%, 0%, 58%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #65166a warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 52 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #6A1650; nudged cooler, #46156B.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #65166a?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 27.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #65166a as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #65166a in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#65166a] or text-[#65166a], 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 #65166a with 50% opacity?

rgba(101, 22, 106, 0.5), or #65166a80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B28BB5; over black, #330B35.

Is #65166a a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #660066, ΔE2000 2.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #65166a 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 #65166a?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #95219D, #65166a 45%, #65166A). For more colour, a short hue run to #511125 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #65166a in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #65166a at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.