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violet · cool

#750fcc

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

Token name suggestion: Dusk Plum

RGB
117, 15, 204
HSL
272°, 86%, 43%
CMYK
43, 93, 0, 20
Luminance
0.0848

#750fcc is a dark electric violet, 272° on the wheel and 65/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (7.79:1). As text it scores 7.79:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Violet, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(272 86% 43%)rgb(117 15 204)Base step 700AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #750fcc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#750fcc
Hue
272°
violet
Saturation
86%
electric
Lightness
43%
dark
Brightness
80%
HSV value
Perceived
37%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0848
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
65/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
7.79:1
Closest name
Dark Violet
ΔE2000 5
Chroma
101.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.472
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 16.3
Web-safe
#6600CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue272° of 360°
Saturation86%
Lightness43%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #750fcc.

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%
Green4%
Blue51%

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

Every format

HEX#750fcc
HEX (8-digit)#750fccff
RGBrgb(117, 15, 204)
RGBArgba(117, 15, 204, 1)
HSLhsl(272, 86%, 43%)
HSV / HSBhsv(272, 93%, 80%)
HWBhwb(272 6% 20%)
CMYKcmyk(43%, 93%, 0%, 20%)
LABlab(35.0 69.6 -74.0)
LCHlch(35.0 101.6 313.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.472 0.244 299.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(18.40, 8.48, 57.78)
Decimal7671756
Display P3color(display-p3 0.459 0.059 0.800)
Web-safe#6600CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #750fcc;
background-color: #750fcc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #750fcc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#750fcc] bg-[#750fcc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #750fcc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.459, green: 0.059, blue: 0.800)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.459, green: 0.059, blue: 0.800, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#750FCC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF750FCC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF750FCC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(204, 15, 117)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(117, 15, 204)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(117, 15, 204)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 117, 15, 204)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4588f, 0.0588f, 0.8000f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{117,15,204}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #750fcc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #750fcc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#440977, #E2D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #750fcc 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: #F8F2FD;
  --brand-100: #F1E5FA;
  --brand-200: #E0C5F7;
  --brand-300: #CB96F7;
  --brand-400: #B162F3;
  --brand-500: #972EF0;
  --brand-600: #8311E4;
  --brand-700: #750fcc;
  --brand-800: #570B98;
  --brand-900: #410D6E;
  --brand-950: #290845;
  --brand: #750fcc;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F8F4FA;
  --brand-border: #D8C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #620DAB;
  --brand-pressed: #4F0A89;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1D1424;
    --brand-ink: #E2D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8F2FD',
        100: '#F1E5FA',
        200: '#E0C5F7',
        300: '#CB96F7',
        400: '#B162F3',
        500: '#972EF0',
        600: '#8311E4',
        700: '#750fcc',
        800: '#570B98',
        900: '#410D6E',
        950: '#290845',
        DEFAULT: '#750fcc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8F2FD,
  '100': #F1E5FA,
  '200': #E0C5F7,
  '300': #CB96F7,
  '400': #B162F3,
  '500': #972EF0,
  '600': #8311E4,
  '700': #750fcc,
  '800': #570B98,
  '900': #410D6E,
  '950': #290845,
);
$brand-base: #750fcc;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8F2FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F1E5FA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E0C5F7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CB96F7", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#B162F3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#972EF0", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#8311E4", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#750fcc", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#570B98", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#410D6E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#290845", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #750fcc · 7.79:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 7.79:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.70:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #750fcc as text scores 7.79:1 on white and 2.70:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F3E7FD at 6.55:1.

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
#750fcc · 7.79:1
AA on whitealready passes
#750fcc
The quick fox
#750fcc · 7.79:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#750fcc
The quick fox
#A040F1 · 4.50:1
AA on black+17% L
#A040F1
The quick fox
#BC7AF5 · 7.24:1
AAA on black+29% L
#BC7AF5

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #750FCC 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
#750fcc on white: 7.79:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#750fcc on black: 2.70:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #750fcc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #750fcc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White7.79:1AaAa
Slate 507.44:1AaAa
Slate 1007.11:1AaAa
Slate 2006.32:1AaAa
Slate 3005.25:1AaAa
Slate 4003.04:1AaAa
Slate 5001.64:1AaAa
Slate 6001.03:1AaAa
Slate 7001.33:1AaAa
Slate 8001.88:1AaAa
Slate 9002.29:1AaAa
Black2.70:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0052D1
deuteranopia · #0051C9
tritanopia · #5F5078

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. #750fcc 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.

#F8F2FD
#F1E5FA
#E0C5F7
#CB96F7
#B162F3
#972EF0
#8311E4
#750fcc
#570B98
#410D6E
#290845
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F8F2FDDarkest = 950 · #290845Text 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 0.061 299.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.098 299.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.147 299.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.191 299.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.225 299.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.244 299.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.244 299.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.230 299.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.205 299.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.171 299.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.134 299.8);
}

Colors that work with #750fcc

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#D8C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#764B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#8DC20A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#440977
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F3E7FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1D1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#620DAB
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4F0A89
Two steps down
Disabled#A792B9
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#8104EB
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 #750fcc

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
  • Weight57/100
  • 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#66CC0F
Analogous left#170FCC
Analogous right#CC0FC4
Split-complement 1#C4CC0F
Split-complement 2#0FCC17
Triadic 1#CC750F
Triadic 2#0FCC75
Tetradic#CC170F
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°272°

#750fcc sits at 272°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red45.9%
Green5.9%
Blue80.0%
R · 0–255
117
0x75
G · 0–255
15
0x0f
B · 0–255
204
0xcc

CMYK percentages

Cyan42.6%
Magenta92.6%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)20.0%

Total ink coverage is 155%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#750fcc text on a black background

contrast 2.70:1

Card sample

#750fcc text on a white background

contrast 7.79:1

Card sample

#750fcc on grey

7.11:1

#750fcc on its own surface

7.16:1

#750fcc on its dark surface

2.29:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #750fcc;
Background color
Panel with #750fcc background
background-color: #750fcc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #750fcc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(117, 15, 204, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(117, 15, 204, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #750fcc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #750fcc, #CC0FA5);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #750fcc, #CC0F76);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #750fcc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #750fcc;
caret-color: #750fcc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #750fcc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F3E7FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #750fcc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#750fcc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #750fcc 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(117, 15, 204, 0.5)
rgb(117 15 204 / 50%)
#750fcc80
hsl(272 86% 43% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #750fcc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#750fcc1a#F1E7FA
20%#750fcc33#E3CFF5
40%#750fcc66#C89FEB
60%#750fcc99#AC6FE0
80%#750fcccc#913FD6

Gradients from #750fcc

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, #9429EF, #750fcc 45%, #440977);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #750fcc, #AF0D80);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #750fcc, #66CC0F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #A245F1 0%, #750fcc 45%, #440977 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%, #1F28EF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E811CE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #440977 0%, transparent 65%), #750fcc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #750fcc

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.

#750fcc 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 2.70:1 — lift it to #A040F1 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.

#750fcc, answered

What color is #750fcc?

#750fcc is a dark electric violet, closest to Dark Violet (ΔE2000 5). It sits at 272° on the hue wheel with 86% saturation and 43% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #750fcc?

rgb(117, 15, 204) — 117 red, 15 green and 204 blue out of 255, or 45.9% / 5.9% / 80% by channel.

What is #750fcc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(272, 86%, 43%) and hsv(272, 93%, 80%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #750fcc a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0848 and perceived brightness is 37%, so white text on it reaches 7.79:1.

Should I use black or white text on #750fcc?

White. It scores 7.79:1 against #750fcc, versus 2.70:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #750fcc accessible on a white background?

#750fcc on white scores 7.79:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #750fcc?

#66CC0F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C4CC0F and #0FCC17, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #750fcc?

For interface work: #F8F4FA as the surface, #D8C0ED for borders, #764B9B for secondary text, #8DC20A as an accent and #440977 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #170FCC and #CC0FC4 stays calm, while #66CC0F is the loudest partner.

What is #750fcc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(43%, 93%, 0%, 20%). 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 #750fcc 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 #BA0FCC; nudged cooler, #2E0DCE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #750fcc?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 16.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #750fcc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #750fcc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#750fcc] or text-[#750fcc], 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 #750fcc with 50% opacity?

rgba(117, 15, 204, 0.5), or #750fcc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BA87E6; over black, #3B0866.

Is #750fcc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #6600CC, ΔE2000 2.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #750fcc 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 #750fcc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #9429EF, #750fcc 45%, #440977). For more colour, a short hue run to #AF0D80 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #750fcc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #750fcc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.