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magenta / pink · neutral

#782884

a dark, vivid magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Purple

Token name suggestion: Dusk Fuchsia

RGB
120, 40, 132
HSL
292°, 54%, 34%
CMYK
9, 70, 0, 48
Luminance
0.0718

#782884 is a dark vivid magenta / pink, 292° on the wheel and 54/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (8.62:1). As text it scores 8.62:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Purple, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(292 54% 34%)rgb(120 40 132)Base step 800AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #782884 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#782884
Hue
292°
magenta / pink
Saturation
54%
vivid
Lightness
34%
dark
Brightness
52%
HSV value
Perceived
33%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0718
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
54/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
8.62:1
Closest name
Purple
ΔE2000 4
Chroma
59.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.436
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 21.9
Web-safe
#663399
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue292° of 360°
Saturation54%
Lightness34%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #782884.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool54% cool

Reads neutral. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red56%
Green21%
Blue23%

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

Every format

HEX#782884
HEX (8-digit)#782884ff
RGBrgb(120, 40, 132)
RGBArgba(120, 40, 132, 1)
HSLhsl(292, 54%, 34%)
HSV / HSBhsv(292, 70%, 52%)
HWBhwb(292 16% 48%)
CMYKcmyk(9%, 70%, 0%, 48%)
LABlab(32.2 47.6 -35.2)
LCHlch(32.2 59.2 323.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.436 0.160 322.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(12.67, 7.18, 22.54)
Decimal7874692
Display P3color(display-p3 0.471 0.157 0.518)
Web-safe#663399

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #782884;
background-color: #782884;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #782884;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#782884] bg-[#782884]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #782884;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.471, green: 0.157, blue: 0.518)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.471, green: 0.157, blue: 0.518, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#782884</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF782884)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF782884)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(132, 40, 120)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(120, 40, 132)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(120, 40, 132)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 120, 40, 132)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4706f, 0.1569f, 0.5176f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{120,40,132}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #782884 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #782884 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#591E62, #EBD3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #782884 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: #FAF4FB;
  --brand-100: #F4E9F6;
  --brand-200: #E9CEED;
  --brand-300: #DDA9E5;
  --brand-400: #CC7ED8;
  --brand-500: #BB53CB;
  --brand-600: #AB39BC;
  --brand-700: #8E2F9D;
  --brand-800: #782884;
  --brand-900: #531F5B;
  --brand-950: #341339;
  --brand: #782884;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #E6C0EC;
  --brand-hover: #5F2069;
  --brand-pressed: #46174D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #221424;
    --brand-ink: #EBD3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF4FB',
        100: '#F4E9F6',
        200: '#E9CEED',
        300: '#DDA9E5',
        400: '#CC7ED8',
        500: '#BB53CB',
        600: '#AB39BC',
        700: '#8E2F9D',
        800: '#782884',
        900: '#531F5B',
        950: '#341339',
        DEFAULT: '#782884',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF4FB,
  '100': #F4E9F6,
  '200': #E9CEED,
  '300': #DDA9E5,
  '400': #CC7ED8,
  '500': #BB53CB,
  '600': #AB39BC,
  '700': #8E2F9D,
  '800': #782884,
  '900': #531F5B,
  '950': #341339,
);
$brand-base: #782884;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF4FB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4E9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E9CEED", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DDA9E5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#CC7ED8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#BB53CB", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#AB39BC", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#8E2F9D", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#782884", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#531F5B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#341339", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #782884 · 8.62:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 8.62:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.44:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #782884 as text scores 8.62:1 on white and 2.44:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F7EBF9 at 7.48:1.

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
#782884 · 8.62:1
AA on whitealready passes
#782884
The quick fox
#782884 · 8.62:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#782884
The quick fox
#B542C6 · 4.56:1
AA on black+18% L
#B542C6
The quick fox
#CA79D6 · 7.22:1
AAA on black+32% L
#CA79D6

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #782884 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
#782884 on white: 8.62:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#782884 on black: 2.44:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #782884 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #782884.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White8.62:1AaAa
Slate 508.24:1AaAa
Slate 1007.87:1AaAa
Slate 2006.99:1AaAa
Slate 3005.81:1AaAa
Slate 4003.36:1AaAa
Slate 5001.81:1AaAa
Slate 6001.14:1AaAa
Slate 7001.20:1AaAa
Slate 8001.70:1AaAa
Slate 9002.07:1AaAa
Black2.44:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0C4687
deuteranopia · #344F82
tritanopia · #7A3853

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. #782884 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.

#FAF4FB
#F4E9F6
#E9CEED
#DDA9E5
#CC7ED8
#BB53CB
#AB39BC
#8E2F9D
#782884
#531F5B
#341339
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #FAF4FBDarkest = 950 · #341339Text step on white = 600
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 0.040 322.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.064 322.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.096 322.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.125 322.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.147 322.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.160 322.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.160 322.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.151 322.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.135 322.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.112 322.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.088 322.2);
}

Colors that work with #782884

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#FAF4FA
Tinted page background
Border#E6C0EC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#904B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#4A8725
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#591E62
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7EBF9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#221424
Dark-mode background
Hover#5F2069
One step down in lightness
Pressed#46174D
Two steps down
Disabled#A075A7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#8D239D
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 #782884

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.

expressiveyouthfulwarmconfident

Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands.

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

Strong gendered associations in some markets — test it with the audience you actually have.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight66/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • 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#348428
Analogous left#4A2884
Analogous right#842862
Split-complement 1#628428
Split-complement 2#28844A
Triadic 1#847828
Triadic 2#288478
Tetradic#844A28
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°292°

#782884 sits at 292°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red47.1%
Green15.7%
Blue51.8%
R · 0–255
120
0x78
G · 0–255
40
0x28
B · 0–255
132
0x84

CMYK percentages

Cyan9.1%
Magenta69.7%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)48.2%

Total ink coverage is 127%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#782884 text on a black background

contrast 2.44:1

Card sample

#782884 text on a white background

contrast 8.62:1

Card sample

#782884 on grey

7.87:1

#782884 on its own surface

7.96:1

#782884 on its dark surface

2.04:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #782884;
Background color
Panel with #782884 background
background-color: #782884;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #782884;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(120, 40, 132, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(120, 40, 132, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #782884;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #782884, #842853);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #782884, #84283C);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #782884;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #782884;
caret-color: #782884;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #782884;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7EBF9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #782884;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#782884 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #782884 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(120, 40, 132, 0.5)
rgb(120 40 132 / 50%)
#78288480
hsl(292 54% 34% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #782884 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7828841a#F2EAF3
20%#78288433#E4D4E6
40%#78288466#C9A9CE
60%#78288499#AE7EB5
80%#782884cc#93539D

Gradients from #782884

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, #A336B3, #782884 45%, #591E62);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #782884, #6C213E);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #782884, #348428);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #B542C6 0%, #782884 45%, #591E62 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #5634AB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #9B2F6A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #591E62 0%, transparent 65%), #782884;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #782884

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.

#782884 in the real world

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

Industries
BeautyFashionLifestyleYouth brands
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 2.44:1 — lift it to #B542C6 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.

#782884, answered

What color is #782884?

#782884 is a dark vivid magenta / pink, closest to Purple (ΔE2000 4). It sits at 292° on the hue wheel with 54% saturation and 34% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #782884?

rgb(120, 40, 132) — 120 red, 40 green and 132 blue out of 255, or 47.1% / 15.7% / 51.8% by channel.

What is #782884 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(292, 54%, 34%) and hsv(292, 70%, 52%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #782884 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0718 and perceived brightness is 33%, so white text on it reaches 8.62:1.

Should I use black or white text on #782884?

White. It scores 8.62:1 against #782884, versus 2.44:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #782884 accessible on a white background?

#782884 on white scores 8.62:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #782884?

#348428 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #628428 and #28844A, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #782884?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #E6C0EC for borders, #904B9B for secondary text, #4A8725 as an accent and #591E62 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #4A2884 and #842862 stays calm, while #348428 is the loudest partner.

What is #782884 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(9%, 70%, 0%, 48%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #782884 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 54 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #84286E; nudged cooler, #562686.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #782884?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 21.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #782884 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #782884 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#782884] or text-[#782884], 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 #782884 with 50% opacity?

rgba(120, 40, 132, 0.5), or #78288480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BC94C2; over black, #3C1442.

Is #782884 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #663399, ΔE2000 6.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #782884 mean?

As a magenta / pink, it reads expressive, youthful, warm. Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #782884?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #A336B3, #782884 45%, #591E62). For more colour, a short hue run to #6C213E keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #782884 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #782884 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.