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violet · cool

#680a92

a dark, electric violet · cool · closest name: Indigo

Token name suggestion: Forest Thistle

RGB
104, 10, 146
HSL
282°, 87%, 31%
CMYK
29, 93, 0, 43
Luminance
0.0524

#680a92 is a dark electric violet, 282° on the wheel and 60/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (10.26:1). As text it scores 10.26:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Indigo, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(282 87% 31%)rgb(104 10 146)Base step 800AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #680a92 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#680a92
Hue
282°
violet
Saturation
87%
electric
Lightness
31%
dark
Brightness
57%
HSV value
Perceived
30%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0524
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
60/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
10.26:1
Closest name
Indigo
ΔE2000 5.5
Chroma
76.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.400
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 22.8
Web-safe
#660099
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue282° of 360°
Saturation87%
Lightness31%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #680a92.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool60% 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
Red56%
Green4%
Blue40%

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

Every format

HEX#680a92
HEX (8-digit)#680a92ff
RGBrgb(104, 10, 146)
RGBArgba(104, 10, 146, 1)
HSLhsl(282, 87%, 31%)
HSV / HSBhsv(281, 93%, 57%)
HWBhwb(282 4% 43%)
CMYKcmyk(29%, 93%, 0%, 43%)
LABlab(27.4 56.6 -51.8)
LCHlch(27.4 76.8 317.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.400 0.194 310.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(11.00, 5.24, 27.62)
Decimal6818450
Display P3color(display-p3 0.408 0.039 0.573)
Web-safe#660099

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #680a92;
background-color: #680a92;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #680a92;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#680a92] bg-[#680a92]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #680a92;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.408, green: 0.039, blue: 0.573)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.408, green: 0.039, blue: 0.573, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#680A92</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF680A92)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF680A92)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(146, 10, 104)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(104, 10, 146)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(104, 10, 146)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 104, 10, 146)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4078f, 0.0392f, 0.5725f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{104,10,146}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #680a92 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #680a92 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#550877, #E6D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #680a92 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: #F9F2FD;
  --brand-100: #F4E5FA;
  --brand-200: #E8C4F7;
  --brand-300: #DA96F8;
  --brand-400: #C761F4;
  --brand-500: #B42DF1;
  --brand-600: #A310E5;
  --brand-700: #880DBF;
  --brand-800: #680a92;
  --brand-900: #500C6E;
  --brand-950: #320845;
  --brand: #680a92;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F9F4FA;
  --brand-border: #DFC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #500871;
  --brand-pressed: #38054F;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F1424;
    --brand-ink: #E6D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F2FD',
        100: '#F4E5FA',
        200: '#E8C4F7',
        300: '#DA96F8',
        400: '#C761F4',
        500: '#B42DF1',
        600: '#A310E5',
        700: '#880DBF',
        800: '#680a92',
        900: '#500C6E',
        950: '#320845',
        DEFAULT: '#680a92',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F2FD,
  '100': #F4E5FA,
  '200': #E8C4F7,
  '300': #DA96F8,
  '400': #C761F4,
  '500': #B42DF1,
  '600': #A310E5,
  '700': #880DBF,
  '800': #680a92,
  '900': #500C6E,
  '950': #320845,
);
$brand-base: #680a92;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F2FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4E5FA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E8C4F7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DA96F8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C761F4", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B42DF1", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A310E5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#880DBF", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#680a92", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#500C6E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#320845", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #680a92 · 10.26:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 10.26:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.05:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #680a92 as text scores 10.26:1 on white and 2.05:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F7E7FD at 8.70:1.

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
#680a92 · 10.26:1
AA on whitealready passes
#680a92
The quick fox
#680a92 · 10.26:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#680a92
The quick fox
#B42BF1 · 4.56:1
AA on black+25% L
#B42BF1
The quick fox
#CB6EF5 · 7.09:1
AAA on black+39% L
#CB6EF5

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #680A92 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
#680a92 on white: 10.26:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#680a92 on black: 2.05:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #680a92 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #680a92.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White10.26:1AaAa
Slate 509.80:1AaAa
Slate 1009.36:1AaAa
Slate 2008.32:1AaAa
Slate 3006.91:1AaAa
Slate 4004.00:1AaAa
Slate 5002.16:1AaAa
Slate 6001.35:1AaAa
Slate 7001.01:1AaAa
Slate 8001.43:1AaAa
Slate 9001.74:1AaAa
Black2.05:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #003D95
deuteranopia · #004290
tritanopia · #623455

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. #680a92 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.

#F9F2FD
#F4E5FA
#E8C4F7
#DA96F8
#C761F4
#B42DF1
#A310E5
#880DBF
#680a92
#500C6E
#320845
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F9F2FDDarkest = 950 · #320845Text 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 0.049 310.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.078 310.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.117 310.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.151 310.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.179 310.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.194 310.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.194 310.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.183 310.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.163 310.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.136 310.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.107 310.7);
}

Colors that work with #680a92

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#DFC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#824B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#569507
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#550877
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7E7FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#500871
One step down in lightness
Pressed#38054F
Two steps down
Disabled#906CA1
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#7902AE
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 #680a92

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.

creativepremiummodernimaginative

Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft.

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

Deep violets swallow detail on screens with poor gamma; check it on a cheap laptop panel.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight69/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • 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#34920A
Analogous left#240A92
Analogous right#920A78
Split-complement 1#78920A
Split-complement 2#0A9224
Triadic 1#92680A
Triadic 2#0A9268
Tetradic#92240A
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°282°

#680a92 sits at 282°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red40.8%
Green3.9%
Blue57.3%
R · 0–255
104
0x68
G · 0–255
10
0x0a
B · 0–255
146
0x92

CMYK percentages

Cyan28.8%
Magenta93.2%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)42.7%

Total ink coverage is 165%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#680a92 text on a black background

contrast 2.05:1

Card sample

#680a92 text on a white background

contrast 10.26:1

Card sample

#680a92 on grey

9.36:1

#680a92 on its own surface

9.45:1

#680a92 on its dark surface

1.73:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #680a92;
Background color
Panel with #680a92 background
background-color: #680a92;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #680a92;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(104, 10, 146, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(104, 10, 146, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #680a92;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #680a92, #920A61);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #680a92, #920A3F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #680a92;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #680a92;
caret-color: #680a92;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #680a92;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7E7FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #680a92;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#680a92 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #680a92 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(104, 10, 146, 0.5)
rgb(104 10 146 / 50%)
#680a9280
hsl(282 87% 31% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #680a92 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#680a921a#F0E7F4
20%#680a9233#E1CEE9
40%#680a9266#C39DD3
60%#680a9299#A46CBE
80%#680a92cc#863BA8

Gradients from #680a92

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, #910ECB, #680a92 45%, #550877);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #680a92, #750845);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #680a92, #34920A);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #A510E8 0%, #680a92 45%, #550877 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%, #210DC2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #AF0C82 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #550877 0%, transparent 65%), #680a92;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #680a92

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.

#680a92 in the real world

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

Industries
Creative toolsFintechBeautyLuxury
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 2.05:1 — lift it to #B42BF1 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.

#680a92, answered

What color is #680a92?

#680a92 is a dark electric violet, closest to Indigo (ΔE2000 5.5). It sits at 282° on the hue wheel with 87% saturation and 31% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #680a92?

rgb(104, 10, 146) — 104 red, 10 green and 146 blue out of 255, or 40.8% / 3.9% / 57.3% by channel.

What is #680a92 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(282, 87%, 31%) and hsv(281, 93%, 57%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #680a92 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0524 and perceived brightness is 30%, so white text on it reaches 10.26:1.

Should I use black or white text on #680a92?

White. It scores 10.26:1 against #680a92, versus 2.05:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #680a92 accessible on a white background?

#680a92 on white scores 10.26:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #680a92?

#34920A sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #78920A and #0A9224, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #680a92?

For interface work: #F9F4FA as the surface, #DFC0ED for borders, #824B9B for secondary text, #569507 as an accent and #550877 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #240A92 and #920A78 stays calm, while #34920A is the loudest partner.

What is #680a92 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(29%, 93%, 0%, 43%). 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 #680a92 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 60 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #920A8A; nudged cooler, #360894.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #680a92?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 22.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #680a92 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #680a92 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#680a92] or text-[#680a92], 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 #680a92 with 50% opacity?

rgba(104, 10, 146, 0.5), or #680a9280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B485C9; over black, #340549.

Is #680a92 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #660099, ΔE2000 1.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #680a92 mean?

As a violet, it reads creative, premium, modern. Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #680a92?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #910ECB, #680a92 45%, #550877). For more colour, a short hue run to #750845 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #680a92 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #680a92 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.