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violet · cool

#7f67af

a balanced, soft violet · cool · closest name: Medium Purple

Token name suggestion: Atlas Plum

RGB
127, 103, 175
HSL
260°, 31%, 55%
CMYK
27, 41, 0, 31
Luminance
0.1731

#7f67af is a balanced soft violet, 260° on the wheel and 70/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (4.71:1). As text it scores 4.71:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Medium Purple, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(260 31% 55%)rgb(127 103 175)Base step 500AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7f67af is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7f67af
Hue
260°
violet
Saturation
31%
soft
Lightness
55%
balanced
Brightness
69%
HSV value
Perceived
47%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1731
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
70/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
4.71:1
Closest name
Medium Purple
ΔE2000 8.4
Chroma
43.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.567
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 11.7
Web-safe
#666699
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue260° of 360°
Saturation31%
Lightness55%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7f67af.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool70% 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
Red26%
Green56%
Blue18%

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

Every format

HEX#7f67af
HEX (8-digit)#7f67afff
RGBrgb(127, 103, 175)
RGBArgba(127, 103, 175, 1)
HSLhsl(260, 31%, 55%)
HSV / HSBhsv(260, 41%, 69%)
HWBhwb(260 40% 31%)
CMYKcmyk(27%, 41%, 0%, 31%)
LABlab(48.6 25.2 -35.0)
LCHlch(48.6 43.2 305.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.567 0.111 298.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(21.34, 17.31, 42.77)
Decimal8349615
Display P3color(display-p3 0.498 0.404 0.686)
Web-safe#666699

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7f67af;
background-color: #7f67af;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7f67af;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7f67af] bg-[#7f67af]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7f67af;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.498, green: 0.404, blue: 0.686)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.498, green: 0.404, blue: 0.686, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7F67AF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7F67AF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7F67AF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(175, 103, 127)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(127, 103, 175)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(127, 103, 175)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 127, 103, 175)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4980f, 0.4039f, 0.6863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{127,103,175}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7f67af 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7f67af 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#392C54, #DDD7EA);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7f67af 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: #F7F6F9;
  --brand-100: #EEECF3;
  --brand-200: #DBD5E7;
  --brand-300: #C1B6D8;
  --brand-400: #A291C5;
  --brand-500: #7f67af;
  --brand-600: #6E54A0;
  --brand-700: #5B4686;
  --brand-800: #49386B;
  --brand-900: #372C4F;
  --brand-950: #231B31;
  --brand: #7f67af;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F7F5FA;
  --brand-border: #D2CAE3;
  --brand-hover: #6D549F;
  --brand-pressed: #5D4787;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #191424;
    --brand-ink: #DDD7EA;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F6F9',
        100: '#EEECF3',
        200: '#DBD5E7',
        300: '#C1B6D8',
        400: '#A291C5',
        500: '#7f67af',
        600: '#6E54A0',
        700: '#5B4686',
        800: '#49386B',
        900: '#372C4F',
        950: '#231B31',
        DEFAULT: '#7f67af',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F6F9,
  '100': #EEECF3,
  '200': #DBD5E7,
  '300': #C1B6D8,
  '400': #A291C5,
  '500': #7f67af,
  '600': #6E54A0,
  '700': #5B4686,
  '800': #49386B,
  '900': #372C4F,
  '950': #231B31,
);
$brand-base: #7f67af;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F6F9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEECF3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DBD5E7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C1B6D8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A291C5", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#7f67af", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#6E54A0", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5B4686", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#49386B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#372C4F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#231B31", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7f67af · 4.71:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.71:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.46:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #7f67af as text scores 4.71:1 on white and 4.46:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F1EEF6 at 4.10:1.

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
#7f67af · 4.71:1
AA on whitealready passes
#7f67af
The quick fox
#634D91 · 7.00:1
AAA on white−11% L
#634D91
The quick fox
#826AB1 · 4.65:1
AA on black+1% L
#826AB1
The quick fox
#A18FC4 · 7.24:1
AAA on black+12% L
#A18FC4

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7F67AF 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
#7f67af on white: 4.71:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7f67af on black: 4.46:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7f67af as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7f67af.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.71:1AaAa
Slate 504.50:1AaAa
Slate 1004.30:1AaAa
Slate 2003.82:1AaAa
Slate 3003.17:1AaAa
Slate 4001.84:1AaAa
Slate 5001.01:1AaAa
Slate 6001.61:1AaAa
Slate 7002.20:1AaAa
Slate 8003.11:1AaAa
Slate 9003.79:1AaAa
Black4.46:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #5374B2
deuteranopia · #5873AD
tritanopia · #757382

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. #7f67af is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F7F6F9
#EEECF3
#DBD5E7
#C1B6D8
#A291C5
#7f67af
#6E54A0
#5B4686
#49386B
#372C4F
#231B31
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F7F6F9Darkest = 950 · #231B31Text 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 0.028 298.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.044 298.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.067 298.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.087 298.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.102 298.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.111 298.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.111 298.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.104 298.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.093 298.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.078 298.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.061 298.1);
}

Colors that work with #7f67af

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#F7F5FA
Tinted page background
Border#D2CAE3
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#674F96
Captions on the surface
Accent#848A42
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#392C54
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1EEF6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#191424
Dark-mode background
Hover#6D549F
One step down in lightness
Pressed#5D4787
Two steps down
Disabled#BFB6D0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#876AC1
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #7f67af

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • 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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight46/100
  • 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#97AF67
Analogous left#6773AF
Analogous right#A367AF
Split-complement 1#AFA367
Split-complement 2#73AF67
Triadic 1#AF7F67
Triadic 2#67AF7F
Tetradic#AF6773
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°260°

#7f67af sits at 260°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red49.8%
Green40.4%
Blue68.6%
R · 0–255
127
0x7f
G · 0–255
103
0x67
B · 0–255
175
0xaf

CMYK percentages

Cyan27.4%
Magenta41.1%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)31.4%

Total ink coverage is 100%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7f67af text on a black background

contrast 4.46:1

Card sample

#7f67af text on a white background

contrast 4.71:1

Card sample

#7f67af on grey

4.30:1

#7f67af on its own surface

4.35:1

#7f67af on its dark surface

3.82:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7f67af;
Background color
Panel with #7f67af background
background-color: #7f67af;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7f67af;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(127, 103, 175, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(127, 103, 175, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7f67af;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7f67af, #AF67AF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7f67af, #AF679D);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7f67af;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7f67af;
caret-color: #7f67af;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7f67af;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1EEF6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7f67af;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7f67af 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7f67af 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, 103, 175, 0.5)
rgb(127 103 175 / 50%)
#7f67af80
hsl(260 31% 55% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7f67af 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7f67af1a#F2F0F7
20%#7f67af33#E5E1EF
40%#7f67af66#CCC2DF
60%#7f67af99#B2A4CF
80%#7f67afcc#9985BF

Gradients from #7f67af

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, #A18FC4, #7f67af 45%, #392C54);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7f67af, #A2559C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7f67af, #97AF67);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #B2A3CF 0%, #7f67af 45%, #392C54 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7F5FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #8896C1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #B47BB9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #392C54 0%, transparent 65%), #7f67af;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7f67af

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.

#7f67af 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 4.46:1 — lift it to #826AB1 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.

#7f67af, answered

What color is #7f67af?

#7f67af is a balanced soft violet, closest to Medium Purple (ΔE2000 8.4). It sits at 260° on the hue wheel with 31% saturation and 55% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7f67af?

rgb(127, 103, 175) — 127 red, 103 green and 175 blue out of 255, or 49.8% / 40.4% / 68.6% by channel.

What is #7f67af in HSL and HSV?

hsl(260, 31%, 55%) and hsv(260, 41%, 69%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7f67af a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1731 and perceived brightness is 47%, so white text on it reaches 4.71:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7f67af?

White. It scores 4.71:1 against #7f67af, versus 4.46:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #7f67af accessible on a white background?

#7f67af on white scores 4.71:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #7f67af?

#97AF67 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #AFA367 and #73AF67, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7f67af?

For interface work: #F7F5FA as the surface, #D2CAE3 for borders, #674F96 for secondary text, #848A42 as an accent and #392C54 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #6773AF and #A367AF stays calm, while #97AF67 is the loudest partner.

What is #7f67af in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(27%, 41%, 0%, 31%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #7f67af warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 70 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #9967AF; nudged cooler, #6567B1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7f67af?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 11.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7f67af as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7f67af in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7f67af] or text-[#7f67af], 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 #7f67af with 50% opacity?

rgba(127, 103, 175, 0.5), or #7f67af80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BFB3D7; over black, #403458.

Is #7f67af a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #666699, ΔE2000 7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7f67af 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #7f67af?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #A18FC4, #7f67af 45%, #392C54). For more colour, a short hue run to #A2559C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7f67af in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7f67af at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.