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violet · cool

#7154ab

a balanced, soft violet · cool · closest name: Slate Blue

Token name suggestion: Atlas Iris

RGB
113, 84, 171
HSL
260°, 34%, 50%
CMYK
34, 51, 0, 33
Luminance
0.1279

#7154ab is a balanced soft violet, 260° on the wheel and 72/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.90:1). As text it scores 5.90:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Slate Blue, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(260 34% 50%)rgb(113 84 171)Base step 600AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7154ab is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7154ab
Hue
260°
violet
Saturation
34%
soft
Lightness
50%
balanced
Brightness
67%
HSV value
Perceived
42%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1279
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
72/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
5.90:1
Closest name
Slate Blue
ΔE2000 6.4
Chroma
53.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.517
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 12.3
Web-safe
#666699
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue260° of 360°
Saturation34%
Lightness50%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7154ab.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool72% 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
Red27%
Green50%
Blue23%

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

Every format

HEX#7154ab
HEX (8-digit)#7154abff
RGBrgb(113, 84, 171)
RGBArgba(113, 84, 171, 1)
HSLhsl(260, 34%, 50%)
HSV / HSBhsv(260, 51%, 67%)
HWBhwb(260 33% 33%)
CMYKcmyk(34%, 51%, 0%, 33%)
LABlab(42.5 31.6 -42.6)
LCHlch(42.5 53.0 306.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.517 0.135 296.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(17.33, 12.79, 40.08)
Decimal7427243
Display P3color(display-p3 0.443 0.329 0.671)
Web-safe#666699

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7154ab;
background-color: #7154ab;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7154ab;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7154ab] bg-[#7154ab]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7154ab;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.443, green: 0.329, blue: 0.671)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.443, green: 0.329, blue: 0.671, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7154AB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7154AB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7154AB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(171, 84, 113)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(113, 84, 171)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(113, 84, 171)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 113, 84, 171)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4431f, 0.3294f, 0.6706f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{113,84,171}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7154ab 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7154ab 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#392A55, #DDD6EB);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7154ab 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: #F7F5F9;
  --brand-100: #EEECF4;
  --brand-200: #DBD4E8;
  --brand-300: #C1B4DA;
  --brand-400: #A18EC8;
  --brand-500: #8269B5;
  --brand-600: #7154ab;
  --brand-700: #5A4389;
  --brand-800: #48366D;
  --brand-900: #372A50;
  --brand-950: #221A32;
  --brand: #7154ab;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F6F5FA;
  --brand-border: #D2C8E4;
  --brand-hover: #614893;
  --brand-pressed: #513C7B;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #191424;
    --brand-ink: #DDD6EB;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F5F9',
        100: '#EEECF4',
        200: '#DBD4E8',
        300: '#C1B4DA',
        400: '#A18EC8',
        500: '#8269B5',
        600: '#7154ab',
        700: '#5A4389',
        800: '#48366D',
        900: '#372A50',
        950: '#221A32',
        DEFAULT: '#7154ab',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F5F9,
  '100': #EEECF4,
  '200': #DBD4E8,
  '300': #C1B4DA,
  '400': #A18EC8,
  '500': #8269B5,
  '600': #7154ab,
  '700': #5A4389,
  '800': #48366D,
  '900': #372A50,
  '950': #221A32,
);
$brand-base: #7154ab;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F5F9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEECF4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DBD4E8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C1B4DA", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A18EC8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#8269B5", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#7154ab", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5A4389", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#48366D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#372A50", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#221A32", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7154ab · 5.90:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.90:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.56:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #7154ab as text scores 5.90:1 on white and 3.56:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F1EEF7 at 5.15:1.

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
#7154ab · 5.90:1
AA on whitealready passes
#7154ab
The quick fox
#634A96 · 7.12:1
AAA on white−6% L
#634A96
The quick fox
#8269B5 · 4.64:1
AA on black+6% L
#8269B5
The quick fox
#A18EC8 · 7.22:1
AAA on black+17% L
#A18EC8

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7154AB 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
#7154ab on white: 5.90:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7154ab on black: 3.56:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7154ab as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7154ab.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.90:1AaAa
Slate 505.64:1AaAa
Slate 1005.39:1AaAa
Slate 2004.79:1AaAa
Slate 3003.97:1AaAa
Slate 4002.30:1AaAa
Slate 5001.24:1AaAa
Slate 6001.28:1AaAa
Slate 7001.75:1AaAa
Slate 8002.48:1AaAa
Slate 9003.03:1AaAa
Black3.56:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #3565AE
deuteranopia · #3B63A9
tritanopia · #646577

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. #7154ab is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F7F5F9
#EEECF4
#DBD4E8
#C1B4DA
#A18EC8
#8269B5
#7154ab
#5A4389
#48366D
#372A50
#221A32
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F7F5F9Darkest = 950 · #221A32Text 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 0.034 296.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.054 296.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.081 296.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.105 296.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.124 296.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.135 296.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.135 296.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.127 296.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.113 296.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.094 296.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.074 296.8);
}

Colors that work with #7154ab

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#D2C8E4
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#664C9A
Captions on the surface
Accent#868D3F
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#392A55
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1EEF7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#191424
Dark-mode background
Hover#614893
One step down in lightness
Pressed#513C7B
Two steps down
Disabled#B2A8C7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#7856BD
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 #7154ab

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • 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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight50/100
  • 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#8EAB54
Analogous left#5463AB
Analogous right#9C54AB
Split-complement 1#AB9C54
Split-complement 2#63AB54
Triadic 1#AB7154
Triadic 2#54AB71
Tetradic#AB5463
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°260°

#7154ab sits at 260°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red44.3%
Green32.9%
Blue67.1%
R · 0–255
113
0x71
G · 0–255
84
0x54
B · 0–255
171
0xab

CMYK percentages

Cyan33.9%
Magenta50.9%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)32.9%

Total ink coverage is 118%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7154ab text on a black background

contrast 3.56:1

Card sample

#7154ab text on a white background

contrast 5.90:1

Card sample

#7154ab on grey

5.39:1

#7154ab on its own surface

5.44:1

#7154ab on its dark surface

3.05:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7154ab;
Background color
Panel with #7154ab background
background-color: #7154ab;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7154ab;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(113, 84, 171, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(113, 84, 171, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7154ab;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7154ab, #AB54AB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7154ab, #AB5495);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7154ab;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7154ab;
caret-color: #7154ab;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7154ab;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1EEF7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7154ab;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7154ab 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7154ab 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(113, 84, 171, 0.5)
rgb(113 84 171 / 50%)
#7154ab80
hsl(260 34% 50% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7154ab 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7154ab1a#F1EEF7
20%#7154ab33#E3DDEE
40%#7154ab66#C6BBDD
60%#7154ab99#AA98CD
80%#7154abcc#8D76BC

Gradients from #7154ab

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, #937DBF, #7154ab 45%, #392A55);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7154ab, #964A90);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7154ab, #8EAB54);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #A492C9 0%, #7154ab 45%, #392A55 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%, #7688BC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #AF69B5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #392A55 0%, transparent 65%), #7154ab;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7154ab

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.

#7154ab 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

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 3.56:1 — lift it to #8269B5 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.

#7154ab, answered

What color is #7154ab?

#7154ab is a balanced soft violet, closest to Slate Blue (ΔE2000 6.4). It sits at 260° on the hue wheel with 34% saturation and 50% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7154ab?

rgb(113, 84, 171) — 113 red, 84 green and 171 blue out of 255, or 44.3% / 32.9% / 67.1% by channel.

What is #7154ab in HSL and HSV?

hsl(260, 34%, 50%) and hsv(260, 51%, 67%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7154ab a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1279 and perceived brightness is 42%, so white text on it reaches 5.90:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7154ab?

White. It scores 5.90:1 against #7154ab, versus 3.56:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #7154ab accessible on a white background?

#7154ab on white scores 5.90:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #7154ab?

#8EAB54 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #AB9C54 and #63AB54, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7154ab?

For interface work: #F6F5FA as the surface, #D2C8E4 for borders, #664C9A for secondary text, #868D3F as an accent and #392A55 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #5463AB and #9C54AB stays calm, while #8EAB54 is the loudest partner.

What is #7154ab in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(34%, 51%, 0%, 33%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #7154ab warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 72 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #9154AB; nudged cooler, #5155AE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7154ab?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 12.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7154ab as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7154ab in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7154ab] or text-[#7154ab], 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 #7154ab with 50% opacity?

rgba(113, 84, 171, 0.5), or #7154ab80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B8AAD5; over black, #392A56.

Is #7154ab a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #666699, ΔE2000 8.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7154ab 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #7154ab?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #937DBF, #7154ab 45%, #392A55). For more colour, a short hue run to #964A90 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7154ab in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7154ab at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.