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violet · cool

#7635ac

a dark, vivid violet · cool · closest name: Rebecca Purple

Token name suggestion: Dusk Amethyst

RGB
118, 53, 172
HSL
273°, 53%, 44%
CMYK
31, 69, 0, 33
Luminance
0.0938

#7635ac is a dark vivid violet, 273° on the wheel and 65/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (7.30:1). As text it scores 7.30:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Rebecca Purple, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(273 53% 44%)rgb(118 53 172)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7635ac is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7635ac
Hue
273°
violet
Saturation
53%
vivid
Lightness
44%
dark
Brightness
67%
HSV value
Perceived
38%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0938
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
65/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
7.30:1
Closest name
Rebecca Purple
ΔE2000 3.8
Chroma
72.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.476
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 15.4
Web-safe
#663399
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue273° of 360°
Saturation53%
Lightness44%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7635ac.

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
Red41%
Green27%
Blue32%

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

Every format

HEX#7635ac
HEX (8-digit)#7635acff
RGBrgb(118, 53, 172)
RGBArgba(118, 53, 172, 1)
HSLhsl(273, 53%, 44%)
HSV / HSBhsv(273, 69%, 67%)
HWBhwb(273 21% 33%)
CMYKcmyk(31%, 69%, 0%, 33%)
LABlab(36.7 50.0 -52.4)
LCHlch(36.7 72.4 313.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.476 0.183 305.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(16.19, 9.38, 39.98)
Decimal7746988
Display P3color(display-p3 0.463 0.208 0.675)
Web-safe#663399

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7635ac;
background-color: #7635ac;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7635ac;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7635ac] bg-[#7635ac]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7635ac;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.463, green: 0.208, blue: 0.675)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.463, green: 0.208, blue: 0.675, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7635AC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7635AC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7635AC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(172, 53, 118)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(118, 53, 172)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(118, 53, 172)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 118, 53, 172)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4627f, 0.2078f, 0.6745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{118,53,172}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7635ac 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7635ac 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#431E61, #E2D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7635ac 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: #F8F4FB;
  --brand-100: #F0E9F6;
  --brand-200: #DFCEED;
  --brand-300: #CAA9E5;
  --brand-400: #AF7ED7;
  --brand-500: #9453CA;
  --brand-600: #7635ac;
  --brand-700: #6B309C;
  --brand-800: #56267D;
  --brand-900: #401F5B;
  --brand-950: #281439;
  --brand: #7635ac;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F8F4FA;
  --brand-border: #D8C1EC;
  --brand-hover: #632D91;
  --brand-pressed: #512475;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1D1424;
    --brand-ink: #E2D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8F4FB',
        100: '#F0E9F6',
        200: '#DFCEED',
        300: '#CAA9E5',
        400: '#AF7ED7',
        500: '#9453CA',
        600: '#7635ac',
        700: '#6B309C',
        800: '#56267D',
        900: '#401F5B',
        950: '#281439',
        DEFAULT: '#7635ac',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8F4FB,
  '100': #F0E9F6,
  '200': #DFCEED,
  '300': #CAA9E5,
  '400': #AF7ED7,
  '500': #9453CA,
  '600': #7635ac,
  '700': #6B309C,
  '800': #56267D,
  '900': #401F5B,
  '950': #281439,
);
$brand-base: #7635ac;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8F4FB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F0E9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DFCEED", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CAA9E5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#AF7ED7", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#9453CA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#7635ac", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#6B309C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#56267D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#401F5B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#281439", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7635ac · 7.30:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 7.30:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.88:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #7635ac as text scores 7.30:1 on white and 2.88:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F3ECF9 at 6.32:1.

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
#7635ac · 7.30:1
AA on whitealready passes
#7635ac
The quick fox
#7635ac · 7.30:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#7635ac
The quick fox
#9758CB · 4.57:1
AA on black+13% L
#9758CB
The quick fox
#B283D9 · 7.14:1
AAA on black+24% L
#B283D9

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7635AC 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
#7635ac on white: 7.30:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7635ac on black: 2.88:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7635ac as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7635ac.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White7.30:1AaAa
Slate 506.98:1AaAa
Slate 1006.67:1AaAa
Slate 2005.92:1AaAa
Slate 3004.92:1AaAa
Slate 4002.85:1AaAa
Slate 5001.53:1AaAa
Slate 6001.04:1AaAa
Slate 7001.42:1AaAa
Slate 8002.00:1AaAa
Slate 9002.44:1AaAa
Black2.88:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0054B0
deuteranopia · #0A57A9
tritanopia · #6C506C

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. #7635ac 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.

#F8F4FB
#F0E9F6
#DFCEED
#CAA9E5
#AF7ED7
#9453CA
#7635ac
#6B309C
#56267D
#401F5B
#281439
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F8F4FBDarkest = 950 · #281439Text 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 0.046 305.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.073 305.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.110 305.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.142 305.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.168 305.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.183 305.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.183 305.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.172 305.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.153 305.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.128 305.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.100 305.5);
}

Colors that work with #7635ac

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#D8C1EC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#764B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#7EA02C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#431E61
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F3ECF9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1D1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#632D91
One step down in lightness
Pressed#512475
Two steps down
Disabled#AA96BC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#822EC8
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 #7635ac

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.

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

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

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight56/100
  • 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#6BAC35
Analogous left#3B35AC
Analogous right#AC35A6
Split-complement 1#A6AC35
Split-complement 2#35AC3B
Triadic 1#AC7635
Triadic 2#35AC76
Tetradic#AC3B35
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°273°

#7635ac sits at 273°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red46.3%
Green20.8%
Blue67.5%
R · 0–255
118
0x76
G · 0–255
53
0x35
B · 0–255
172
0xac

CMYK percentages

Cyan31.4%
Magenta69.2%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)32.5%

Total ink coverage is 133%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7635ac text on a black background

contrast 2.88:1

Card sample

#7635ac text on a white background

contrast 7.30:1

Card sample

#7635ac on grey

6.67:1

#7635ac on its own surface

6.72:1

#7635ac on its dark surface

2.44:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7635ac;
Background color
Panel with #7635ac background
background-color: #7635ac;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7635ac;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(118, 53, 172, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(118, 53, 172, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7635ac;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7635ac, #AC3593);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7635ac, #AC3575);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7635ac;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7635ac;
caret-color: #7635ac;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7635ac;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F3ECF9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7635ac;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7635ac 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7635ac 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(118, 53, 172, 0.5)
rgb(118 53 172 / 50%)
#7635ac80
hsl(273 53% 44% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7635ac 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7635ac1a#F1EBF7
20%#7635ac33#E4D7EE
40%#7635ac66#C8AEDE
60%#7635ac99#AD86CD
80%#7635accc#915DBD

Gradients from #7635ac

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, #9554CA, #7635ac 45%, #431E61);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7635ac, #952E76);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7635ac, #6BAC35);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #A36BD1 0%, #7635ac 45%, #431E61 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%, #4C51C8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #C33CB2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #431E61 0%, transparent 65%), #7635ac;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7635ac

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.

#7635ac 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 2.88:1 — lift it to #9758CB 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.

#7635ac, answered

What color is #7635ac?

#7635ac is a dark vivid violet, closest to Rebecca Purple (ΔE2000 3.8). It sits at 273° on the hue wheel with 53% saturation and 44% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7635ac?

rgb(118, 53, 172) — 118 red, 53 green and 172 blue out of 255, or 46.3% / 20.8% / 67.5% by channel.

What is #7635ac in HSL and HSV?

hsl(273, 53%, 44%) and hsv(273, 69%, 67%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7635ac a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0938 and perceived brightness is 38%, so white text on it reaches 7.30:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7635ac?

White. It scores 7.30:1 against #7635ac, versus 2.88:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #7635ac accessible on a white background?

#7635ac on white scores 7.30:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #7635ac?

#6BAC35 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #A6AC35 and #35AC3B, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7635ac?

For interface work: #F8F4FA as the surface, #D8C1EC for borders, #764B9B for secondary text, #7EA02C as an accent and #431E61 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #3B35AC and #AC35A6 stays calm, while #6BAC35 is the loudest partner.

What is #7635ac in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(31%, 69%, 0%, 33%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #7635ac 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 #A235AC; nudged cooler, #4933AE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7635ac?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 15.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7635ac as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7635ac in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7635ac] or text-[#7635ac], 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 #7635ac with 50% opacity?

rgba(118, 53, 172, 0.5), or #7635ac80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BB9AD6; over black, #3B1B56.

Is #7635ac a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #663399, ΔE2000 3.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7635ac 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 #7635ac?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #9554CA, #7635ac 45%, #431E61). For more colour, a short hue run to #952E76 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7635ac in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7635ac at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.