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violet · cool

#7f2ab6

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

Token name suggestion: Forest Thistle

RGB
127, 42, 182
HSL
276°, 63%, 44%
CMYK
30, 77, 0, 29
Luminance
0.0955

#7f2ab6 is a dark vivid violet, 276° on the wheel and 63/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (7.22:1). As text it scores 7.22:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Violet, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(276 63% 44%)rgb(127 42 182)Base step 700AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7f2ab6 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7f2ab6
Hue
276°
violet
Saturation
63%
vivid
Lightness
44%
dark
Brightness
71%
HSV value
Perceived
38%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0955
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
63/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
7.22:1
Closest name
Dark Violet
ΔE2000 4.8
Chroma
82.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.483
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 15.3
Web-safe
#6633CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue276° of 360°
Saturation63%
Lightness44%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7f2ab6.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool63% 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
Red47%
Green17%
Blue35%

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

Every format

HEX#7f2ab6
HEX (8-digit)#7f2ab6ff
RGBrgb(127, 42, 182)
RGBArgba(127, 42, 182, 1)
HSLhsl(276, 63%, 44%)
HSV / HSBhsv(276, 77%, 71%)
HWBhwb(276 16% 29%)
CMYKcmyk(30%, 77%, 0%, 29%)
LABlab(37.0 58.7 -57.7)
LCHlch(37.0 82.4 315.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.483 0.208 307.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(18.02, 9.55, 45.14)
Decimal8334006
Display P3color(display-p3 0.498 0.165 0.714)
Web-safe#6633CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7f2ab6;
background-color: #7f2ab6;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7f2ab6;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7f2ab6] bg-[#7f2ab6]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7f2ab6;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.498, green: 0.165, blue: 0.714)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.498, green: 0.165, blue: 0.714, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7F2AB6</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7F2AB6)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7F2AB6)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(182, 42, 127)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(127, 42, 182)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(127, 42, 182)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 127, 42, 182)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4980f, 0.1647f, 0.7137f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{127,42,182}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7f2ab6 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7f2ab6 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#481868, #E3D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7f2ab6 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: #F1E8F7;
  --brand-200: #E2CCF0;
  --brand-300: #CEA4EA;
  --brand-400: #B676DF;
  --brand-500: #9E49D5;
  --brand-600: #8B2EC7;
  --brand-700: #7f2ab6;
  --brand-800: #5C1F85;
  --brand-900: #451A60;
  --brand-950: #2B103C;
  --brand: #7f2ab6;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F8F4FA;
  --brand-border: #DBC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #6B2399;
  --brand-pressed: #561D7C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1E1424;
    --brand-ink: #E3D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8F4FB',
        100: '#F1E8F7',
        200: '#E2CCF0',
        300: '#CEA4EA',
        400: '#B676DF',
        500: '#9E49D5',
        600: '#8B2EC7',
        700: '#7f2ab6',
        800: '#5C1F85',
        900: '#451A60',
        950: '#2B103C',
        DEFAULT: '#7f2ab6',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8F4FB,
  '100': #F1E8F7,
  '200': #E2CCF0,
  '300': #CEA4EA,
  '400': #B676DF,
  '500': #9E49D5,
  '600': #8B2EC7,
  '700': #7f2ab6,
  '800': #5C1F85,
  '900': #451A60,
  '950': #2B103C,
);
$brand-base: #7f2ab6;
$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": "#F1E8F7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E2CCF0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CEA4EA", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#B676DF", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#9E49D5", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#8B2EC7", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7f2ab6", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#5C1F85", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#451A60", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2B103C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7f2ab6 · 7.22:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 7.22:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.91:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #7f2ab6 as text scores 7.22:1 on white and 2.91:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F4EAFA at 6.19:1.

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
#7f2ab6 · 7.22:1
AA on whitealready passes
#7f2ab6
The quick fox
#7f2ab6 · 7.22:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#7f2ab6
The quick fox
#A04CD6 · 4.50:1
AA on black+13% L
#A04CD6
The quick fox
#BA7EE1 · 7.16:1
AAA on black+25% L
#BA7EE1

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7F2AB6 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
#7f2ab6 on white: 7.22:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7f2ab6 on black: 2.91:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7f2ab6 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7f2ab6.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White7.22:1AaAa
Slate 506.90:1AaAa
Slate 1006.59:1AaAa
Slate 2005.86:1AaAa
Slate 3004.86:1AaAa
Slate 4002.82:1AaAa
Slate 5001.52:1AaAa
Slate 6001.05:1AaAa
Slate 7001.43:1AaAa
Slate 8002.03:1AaAa
Slate 9002.47:1AaAa
Black2.91:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0054BA
deuteranopia · #0058B3
tritanopia · #764D6F

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. #7f2ab6 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.

#F8F4FB
#F1E8F7
#E2CCF0
#CEA4EA
#B676DF
#9E49D5
#8B2EC7
#7f2ab6
#5C1F85
#451A60
#2B103C
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F8F4FBDarkest = 950 · #2B103CText 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 0.052 307.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.083 307.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.125 307.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.162 307.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.191 307.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.208 307.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.208 307.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.195 307.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.174 307.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.145 307.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.114 307.8);
}

Colors that work with #7f2ab6

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#DBC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#7B4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#79A923
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#481868
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F4EAFA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1E1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#6B2399
One step down in lightness
Pressed#561D7C
Two steps down
Disabled#AC95BB
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#8D22D3
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 #7f2ab6

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
  • 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#61B62A
Analogous left#392AB6
Analogous right#B62AA7
Split-complement 1#A7B62A
Split-complement 2#2AB639
Triadic 1#B67F2A
Triadic 2#2AB67F
Tetradic#B6392A
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°276°

#7f2ab6 sits at 276°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red49.8%
Green16.5%
Blue71.4%
R · 0–255
127
0x7f
G · 0–255
42
0x2a
B · 0–255
182
0xb6

CMYK percentages

Cyan30.2%
Magenta76.9%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)28.6%

Total ink coverage is 136%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7f2ab6 text on a black background

contrast 2.91:1

Card sample

#7f2ab6 text on a white background

contrast 7.22:1

Card sample

#7f2ab6 on grey

6.59:1

#7f2ab6 on its own surface

6.64:1

#7f2ab6 on its dark surface

2.46:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7f2ab6;
Background color
Panel with #7f2ab6 background
background-color: #7f2ab6;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7f2ab6;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(127, 42, 182, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(127, 42, 182, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7f2ab6;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7f2ab6, #B62A90);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7f2ab6, #B62A6D);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7f2ab6;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7f2ab6;
caret-color: #7f2ab6;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7f2ab6;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F4EAFA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7f2ab6;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7f2ab6 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7f2ab6 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(127, 42, 182, 0.5)
rgb(127 42 182 / 50%)
#7f2ab680
hsl(276 63% 44% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7f2ab6 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7f2ab61a#F2EAF8
20%#7f2ab633#E5D4F0
40%#7f2ab666#CCAAE2
60%#7f2ab699#B27FD3
80%#7f2ab6cc#9955C5

Gradients from #7f2ab6

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, #9E48D5, #7f2ab6 45%, #481868);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7f2ab6, #9D2472);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7f2ab6, #61B62A);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #AB61DB 0%, #7f2ab6 45%, #481868 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%, #4340D3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #CF30B1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #481868 0%, transparent 65%), #7f2ab6;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7f2ab6

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.

#7f2ab6 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 2.91:1 — lift it to #A04CD6 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.

#7f2ab6, answered

What color is #7f2ab6?

#7f2ab6 is a dark vivid violet, closest to Dark Violet (ΔE2000 4.8). It sits at 276° on the hue wheel with 63% saturation and 44% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7f2ab6?

rgb(127, 42, 182) — 127 red, 42 green and 182 blue out of 255, or 49.8% / 16.5% / 71.4% by channel.

What is #7f2ab6 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(276, 63%, 44%) and hsv(276, 77%, 71%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7f2ab6 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0955 and perceived brightness is 38%, so white text on it reaches 7.22:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7f2ab6?

White. It scores 7.22:1 against #7f2ab6, versus 2.91:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #7f2ab6 accessible on a white background?

#7f2ab6 on white scores 7.22:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #7f2ab6?

#61B62A sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #A7B62A and #2AB639, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7f2ab6?

For interface work: #F8F4FA as the surface, #DBC0ED for borders, #7B4B9B for secondary text, #79A923 as an accent and #481868 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #392AB6 and #B62AA7 stays calm, while #61B62A is the loudest partner.

What is #7f2ab6 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(30%, 77%, 0%, 29%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #7f2ab6 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 63 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #B22AB6; nudged cooler, #4A28B8.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7f2ab6?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 15.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7f2ab6 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7f2ab6 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7f2ab6] or text-[#7f2ab6], 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 #7f2ab6 with 50% opacity?

rgba(127, 42, 182, 0.5), or #7f2ab680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BF95DB; over black, #40155B.

Is #7f2ab6 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #6633CC, ΔE2000 5.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7f2ab6 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 #7f2ab6?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #9E48D5, #7f2ab6 45%, #481868). For more colour, a short hue run to #9D2472 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7f2ab6 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7f2ab6 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.