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violet · neutral

#7c109d

a dark, electric violet · neutral · closest name: Dark Magenta

Token name suggestion: Shadow Iris

RGB
124, 16, 157
HSL
286°, 82%, 34%
CMYK
21, 90, 0, 38
Luminance
0.0709

#7c109d is a dark electric violet, 286° on the wheel and 58/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (8.68:1). As text it scores 8.68:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Magenta, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(286 82% 34%)rgb(124 16 157)Base step 800AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7c109d is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7c109d
Hue
286°
violet
Saturation
82%
electric
Lightness
34%
dark
Brightness
62%
HSV value
Perceived
34%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0709
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
58/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
8.68:1
Closest name
Dark Magenta
ΔE2000 5
Chroma
79.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.442
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 20.3
Web-safe
#660099
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue286° of 360°
Saturation82%
Lightness34%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7c109d.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool58% 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
Red60%
Green5%
Blue34%

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

Every format

HEX#7c109d
HEX (8-digit)#7c109dff
RGBrgb(124, 16, 157)
RGBArgba(124, 16, 157, 1)
HSLhsl(286, 82%, 34%)
HSV / HSBhsv(286, 90%, 62%)
HWBhwb(286 6% 38%)
CMYKcmyk(21%, 90%, 0%, 38%)
LABlab(32.0 60.7 -50.9)
LCHlch(32.0 79.2 320.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.442 0.206 315.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(14.58, 7.09, 32.49)
Decimal8130717
Display P3color(display-p3 0.486 0.063 0.616)
Web-safe#660099

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7c109d;
background-color: #7c109d;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7c109d;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7c109d] bg-[#7c109d]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7c109d;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.486, green: 0.063, blue: 0.616)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.486, green: 0.063, blue: 0.616, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7C109D</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7C109D)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7C109D)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(157, 16, 124)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(124, 16, 157)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(124, 16, 157)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 124, 16, 157)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4863f, 0.0627f, 0.6157f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{124,16,157}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7c109d 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7c109d 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#5B0C74, #E8D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7c109d 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: #FAF2FC;
  --brand-100: #F5E6F9;
  --brand-200: #EBC6F6;
  --brand-300: #DF99F5;
  --brand-400: #CF66EF;
  --brand-500: #C033EA;
  --brand-600: #B017DE;
  --brand-700: #9213B9;
  --brand-800: #7c109d;
  --brand-900: #560F6B;
  --brand-950: #360A43;
  --brand: #7c109d;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F9F4FA;
  --brand-border: #E2C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #620D7C;
  --brand-pressed: #49095C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #211424;
    --brand-ink: #E8D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF2FC',
        100: '#F5E6F9',
        200: '#EBC6F6',
        300: '#DF99F5',
        400: '#CF66EF',
        500: '#C033EA',
        600: '#B017DE',
        700: '#9213B9',
        800: '#7c109d',
        900: '#560F6B',
        950: '#360A43',
        DEFAULT: '#7c109d',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF2FC,
  '100': #F5E6F9,
  '200': #EBC6F6,
  '300': #DF99F5,
  '400': #CF66EF,
  '500': #C033EA,
  '600': #B017DE,
  '700': #9213B9,
  '800': #7c109d,
  '900': #560F6B,
  '950': #360A43,
);
$brand-base: #7c109d;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF2FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F5E6F9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EBC6F6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DF99F5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#CF66EF", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#C033EA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#B017DE", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#9213B9", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#7c109d", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#560F6B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#360A43", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7c109d · 8.68:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 8.68:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.42:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #7c109d as text scores 8.68:1 on white and 2.42:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F8E8FD at 7.42:1.

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
#7c109d · 8.68:1
AA on whitealready passes
#7c109d
The quick fox
#7c109d · 8.68:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#7c109d
The quick fox
#BB25E9 · 4.55:1
AA on black+19% L
#BB25E9
The quick fox
#D16AF0 · 7.03:1
AAA on black+34% L
#D16AF0

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7C109D 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
#7c109d on white: 8.68:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7c109d on black: 2.42:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7c109d as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7c109d.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White8.68:1AaAa
Slate 508.30:1AaAa
Slate 1007.93:1AaAa
Slate 2007.04:1AaAa
Slate 3005.85:1AaAa
Slate 4003.39:1AaAa
Slate 5001.82:1AaAa
Slate 6001.15:1AaAa
Slate 7001.19:1AaAa
Slate 8001.68:1AaAa
Slate 9002.06:1AaAa
Black2.42:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0046A0
deuteranopia · #054E9A
tritanopia · #79375C

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. #7c109d 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.

#FAF2FC
#F5E6F9
#EBC6F6
#DF99F5
#CF66EF
#C033EA
#B017DE
#9213B9
#7c109d
#560F6B
#360A43
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #FAF2FCDarkest = 950 · #360A43Text 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 0.051 315.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.082 315.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.124 315.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.161 315.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.190 315.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.206 315.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.206 315.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.194 315.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.173 315.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.144 315.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.113 315.7);
}

Colors that work with #7c109d

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#F9F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#E2C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#884B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#54A00D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#5B0C74
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F8E8FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#211424
Dark-mode background
Hover#620D7C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#49095C
Two steps down
Disabled#9C76A7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#9008B9
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 #7c109d

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
  • 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#319D10
Analogous left#36109D
Analogous right#9D1077
Split-complement 1#779D10
Split-complement 2#109D36
Triadic 1#9D7C10
Triadic 2#109D7C
Tetradic#9D3610
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°286°

#7c109d sits at 286°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red48.6%
Green6.3%
Blue61.6%
R · 0–255
124
0x7c
G · 0–255
16
0x10
B · 0–255
157
0x9d

CMYK percentages

Cyan21.0%
Magenta89.8%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)38.4%

Total ink coverage is 149%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7c109d text on a black background

contrast 2.42:1

Card sample

#7c109d text on a white background

contrast 8.68:1

Card sample

#7c109d on grey

7.93:1

#7c109d on its own surface

8.00:1

#7c109d on its dark surface

2.03:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7c109d;
Background color
Panel with #7c109d background
background-color: #7c109d;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7c109d;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(124, 16, 157, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(124, 16, 157, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7c109d;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7c109d, #9D1060);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7c109d, #9D103D);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7c109d;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7c109d;
caret-color: #7c109d;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7c109d;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F8E8FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7c109d;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7c109d 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7c109d 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(124, 16, 157, 0.5)
rgb(124 16 157 / 50%)
#7c109d80
hsl(286 82% 34% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7c109d 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7c109d1a#F2E7F5
20%#7c109d33#E5CFEB
40%#7c109d66#CB9FD8
60%#7c109d99#B070C4
80%#7c109dcc#9640B1

Gradients from #7c109d

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, #A816D4, #7c109d 45%, #5B0C74);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7c109d, #810D45);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7c109d, #319D10);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BA20E8 0%, #7c109d 45%, #5B0C74 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #3615CB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #B9137F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #5B0C74 0%, transparent 65%), #7c109d;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7c109d

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.

#7c109d 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 2.42:1 — lift it to #BB25E9 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.

#7c109d, answered

What color is #7c109d?

#7c109d is a dark electric violet, closest to Dark Magenta (ΔE2000 5). It sits at 286° on the hue wheel with 82% saturation and 34% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #7c109d?

rgb(124, 16, 157) — 124 red, 16 green and 157 blue out of 255, or 48.6% / 6.3% / 61.6% by channel.

What is #7c109d in HSL and HSV?

hsl(286, 82%, 34%) and hsv(286, 90%, 62%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7c109d a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0709 and perceived brightness is 34%, so white text on it reaches 8.68:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7c109d?

White. It scores 8.68:1 against #7c109d, versus 2.42:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #7c109d accessible on a white background?

#7c109d on white scores 8.68:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #7c109d?

#319D10 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #779D10 and #109D36, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7c109d?

For interface work: #F9F4FA as the surface, #E2C0ED for borders, #884B9B for secondary text, #54A00D as an accent and #5B0C74 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #36109D and #9D1077 stays calm, while #319D10 is the loudest partner.

What is #7c109d in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(21%, 90%, 0%, 38%). 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 #7c109d warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 58 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #9D108A; nudged cooler, #480E9F.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7c109d?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 20.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7c109d as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7c109d in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7c109d] or text-[#7c109d], 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 #7c109d with 50% opacity?

rgba(124, 16, 157, 0.5), or #7c109d80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BE88CE; over black, #3E084F.

Is #7c109d a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #660099, ΔE2000 4.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7c109d 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 #7c109d?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #A816D4, #7c109d 45%, #5B0C74). For more colour, a short hue run to #810D45 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7c109d in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7c109d at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.