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violet · cool

#7403cf

a dark, electric violet · cool · closest name: Dark Violet

Token name suggestion: Slate Plum

RGB
116, 3, 207
HSL
273°, 97%, 41%
CMYK
44, 99, 0, 19
Luminance
0.0828

#7403cf is a dark electric violet, 273° on the wheel and 65/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (7.90:1). As text it scores 7.90:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Violet, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(273 97% 41%)rgb(116 3 207)Base step 700AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7403cf is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7403cf
Hue
273°
violet
Saturation
97%
electric
Lightness
41%
dark
Brightness
81%
HSV value
Perceived
37%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0828
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
65/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
7.90:1
Closest name
Dark Violet
ΔE2000 5.3
Chroma
104.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.470
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 16.7
Web-safe
#6600CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue273° of 360°
Saturation97%
Lightness41%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7403cf.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool65% 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
Red45%
Green1%
Blue54%

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

Every format

HEX#7403cf
HEX (8-digit)#7403cfff
RGBrgb(116, 3, 207)
RGBArgba(116, 3, 207, 1)
HSLhsl(273, 97%, 41%)
HSV / HSBhsv(273, 99%, 81%)
HWBhwb(273 1% 19%)
CMYKcmyk(44%, 99%, 0%, 19%)
LABlab(34.6 71.8 -76.5)
LCHlch(34.6 104.9 313.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.470 0.251 299.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(18.49, 8.28, 59.64)
Decimal7603151
Display P3color(display-p3 0.455 0.012 0.812)
Web-safe#6600CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7403cf;
background-color: #7403cf;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7403cf;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7403cf] bg-[#7403cf]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7403cf;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.455, green: 0.012, blue: 0.812)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.455, green: 0.012, blue: 0.812, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7403CF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7403CF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7403CF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(207, 3, 116)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(116, 3, 207)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(116, 3, 207)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 116, 3, 207)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4549f, 0.0118f, 0.8118f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{116,3,207}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7403cf 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7403cf 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#46027E, #E2D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7403cf 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: #F8F1FD;
  --brand-100: #F1E4FC;
  --brand-200: #E1C1FB;
  --brand-300: #CD90FD;
  --brand-400: #B459FD;
  --brand-500: #9A22FC;
  --brand-600: #8704F1;
  --brand-700: #7403cf;
  --brand-800: #5A02A1;
  --brand-900: #430774;
  --brand-950: #2A0448;
  --brand: #7403cf;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F8F4FA;
  --brand-border: #D9C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #6003AC;
  --brand-pressed: #4D0289;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1D1424;
    --brand-ink: #E2D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8F1FD',
        100: '#F1E4FC',
        200: '#E1C1FB',
        300: '#CD90FD',
        400: '#B459FD',
        500: '#9A22FC',
        600: '#8704F1',
        700: '#7403cf',
        800: '#5A02A1',
        900: '#430774',
        950: '#2A0448',
        DEFAULT: '#7403cf',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8F1FD,
  '100': #F1E4FC,
  '200': #E1C1FB,
  '300': #CD90FD,
  '400': #B459FD,
  '500': #9A22FC,
  '600': #8704F1,
  '700': #7403cf,
  '800': #5A02A1,
  '900': #430774,
  '950': #2A0448,
);
$brand-base: #7403cf;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8F1FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F1E4FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E1C1FB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CD90FD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#B459FD", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#9A22FC", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#8704F1", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7403cf", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#5A02A1", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#430774", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2A0448", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7403cf · 7.90:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 7.90:1 · 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: #7403cf as text scores 7.90:1 on white and 2.66:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F4E6FF at 6.63:1.

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
#7403cf · 7.90:1
AA on whitealready passes
#7403cf
The quick fox
#7403cf · 7.90:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#7403cf
The quick fox
#A437FC · 4.53:1
AA on black+19% L
#A437FC
The quick fox
#BF73FD · 7.09:1
AAA on black+31% L
#BF73FD

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7403CF 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
#7403cf on white: 7.90:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7403cf on black: 2.66:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7403cf as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7403cf.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White7.90:1AaAa
Slate 507.56:1AaAa
Slate 1007.22:1AaAa
Slate 2006.41:1AaAa
Slate 3005.32:1AaAa
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 · #0051D4
deuteranopia · #004FCC
tritanopia · #5C5079

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. #7403cf 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.

#F8F1FD
#F1E4FC
#E1C1FB
#CD90FD
#B459FD
#9A22FC
#8704F1
#7403cf
#5A02A1
#430774
#2A0448
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F8F1FDDarkest = 950 · #2A0448Text 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 0.063 299.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.100 299.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.150 299.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.196 299.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.231 299.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.251 299.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.251 299.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.236 299.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.211 299.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.175 299.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.138 299.1);
}

Colors that work with #7403cf

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#F8F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#D9C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#774B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#8ECC00
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#46027E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F4E6FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1D1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#6003AC
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4D0289
Two steps down
Disabled#A38DB6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#8000E7
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 #7403cf

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
  • Weight59/100
  • 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#5ECF03
Analogous left#0E03CF
Analogous right#CF03C4
Split-complement 1#C4CF03
Split-complement 2#03CF0E
Triadic 1#CF7403
Triadic 2#03CF74
Tetradic#CF0E03
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°273°

#7403cf sits at 273°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red45.5%
Green1.2%
Blue81.2%
R · 0–255
116
0x74
G · 0–255
3
0x03
B · 0–255
207
0xcf

CMYK percentages

Cyan44.0%
Magenta98.6%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)18.8%

Total ink coverage is 161%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7403cf text on a black background

contrast 2.66:1

Card sample

#7403cf text on a white background

contrast 7.90:1

Card sample

#7403cf on grey

7.22:1

#7403cf on its own surface

7.27:1

#7403cf on its dark surface

2.26:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7403cf;
Background color
Panel with #7403cf background
background-color: #7403cf;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7403cf;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(116, 3, 207, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(116, 3, 207, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7403cf;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7403cf, #CF03A2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7403cf, #CF036F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7403cf;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7403cf;
caret-color: #7403cf;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7403cf;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F4E6FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7403cf;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7403cf 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7403cf 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(116, 3, 207, 0.5)
rgb(116 3 207 / 50%)
#7403cf80
hsl(273 97% 41% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7403cf 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7403cf1a#F1E6FA
20%#7403cf33#E3CDF5
40%#7403cf66#C79AEC
60%#7403cf99#AC68E2
80%#7403cfcc#9035D9

Gradients from #7403cf

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, #9414FC, #7403cf 45%, #46027E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7403cf, #B1037C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7403cf, #5ECF03);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #A232FC 0%, #7403cf 45%, #46027E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #0A11FB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #ED03CD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #46027E 0%, transparent 65%), #7403cf;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7403cf

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.

#7403cf 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 2.66:1 — lift it to #A437FC 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.

#7403cf, answered

What color is #7403cf?

#7403cf is a dark electric violet, closest to Dark Violet (ΔE2000 5.3). It sits at 273° on the hue wheel with 97% saturation and 41% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7403cf?

rgb(116, 3, 207) — 116 red, 3 green and 207 blue out of 255, or 45.5% / 1.2% / 81.2% by channel.

What is #7403cf in HSL and HSV?

hsl(273, 97%, 41%) and hsv(273, 99%, 81%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7403cf a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0828 and perceived brightness is 37%, so white text on it reaches 7.90:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7403cf?

White. It scores 7.90:1 against #7403cf, versus 2.66:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #7403cf accessible on a white background?

#7403cf on white scores 7.90:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #7403cf?

#5ECF03 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C4CF03 and #03CF0E, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7403cf?

For interface work: #F8F4FA as the surface, #D9C0ED for borders, #774B9B for secondary text, #8ECC00 as an accent and #46027E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #0E03CF and #CF03C4 stays calm, while #5ECF03 is the loudest partner.

What is #7403cf in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(44%, 99%, 0%, 19%). 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 #7403cf warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 65 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BF03CF; nudged cooler, #2801D1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7403cf?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 16.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7403cf as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7403cf in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7403cf] or text-[#7403cf], 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 #7403cf with 50% opacity?

rgba(116, 3, 207, 0.5), or #7403cf80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BA81E7; over black, #3A0268.

Is #7403cf a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #6600CC, ΔE2000 2.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7403cf 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 #7403cf?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #9414FC, #7403cf 45%, #46027E). For more colour, a short hue run to #B1037C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7403cf in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7403cf at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.