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violet · neutral

#910fad

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

Token name suggestion: Shadow Plum

RGB
145, 15, 173
HSL
289°, 84%, 37%
CMYK
16, 91, 0, 32
Luminance
0.0938

#910fad is a dark electric violet, 289° on the wheel and 56/100 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 Dark Violet, nearest Tailwind family is purple.

hsl(289 84% 37%)rgb(145 15 173)Base step 700AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #910fad is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#910fad
Hue
289°
violet
Saturation
84%
electric
Lightness
37%
dark
Brightness
68%
HSV value
Perceived
39%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0938
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
56/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
7.30:1
Closest name
Dark Violet
ΔE2000 5.4
Chroma
85.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.485
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
purple
500 · ΔE 17.3
Web-safe
#990099
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue289° of 360°
Saturation84%
Lightness37%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #910fad.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool56% 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
Red64%
Green4%
Blue32%

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

Every format

HEX#910fad
HEX (8-digit)#910fadff
RGBrgb(145, 15, 173)
RGBArgba(145, 15, 173, 1)
HSLhsl(289, 84%, 37%)
HSV / HSBhsv(289, 91%, 68%)
HWBhwb(289 6% 32%)
CMYKcmyk(16%, 91%, 0%, 32%)
LABlab(36.7 67.2 -52.8)
LCHlch(36.7 85.4 321.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.485 0.226 318.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(19.39, 9.38, 40.32)
Decimal9506733
Display P3color(display-p3 0.569 0.059 0.678)
Web-safe#990099

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #910fad;
background-color: #910fad;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #910fad;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#910fad] bg-[#910fad]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #910fad;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.569, green: 0.059, blue: 0.678)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.569, green: 0.059, blue: 0.678, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#910FAD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF910FAD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF910FAD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(173, 15, 145)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(145, 15, 173)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(145, 15, 173)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 145, 15, 173)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5686f, 0.0588f, 0.6784f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{145,15,173}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #910fad 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #910fad 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#620A75, #E9D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #910fad 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: #FBF2FC;
  --brand-100: #F6E6FA;
  --brand-200: #EEC5F6;
  --brand-300: #E598F6;
  --brand-400: #D964F2;
  --brand-500: #CC31ED;
  --brand-600: #BD14E1;
  --brand-700: #910fad;
  --brand-800: #7E0D96;
  --brand-900: #5C0E6C;
  --brand-950: #390944;
  --brand: #910fad;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F9F4FA;
  --brand-border: #E5C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #760C8C;
  --brand-pressed: #5A096B;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #211424;
    --brand-ink: #E9D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF2FC',
        100: '#F6E6FA',
        200: '#EEC5F6',
        300: '#E598F6',
        400: '#D964F2',
        500: '#CC31ED',
        600: '#BD14E1',
        700: '#910fad',
        800: '#7E0D96',
        900: '#5C0E6C',
        950: '#390944',
        DEFAULT: '#910fad',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF2FC,
  '100': #F6E6FA,
  '200': #EEC5F6,
  '300': #E598F6,
  '400': #D964F2,
  '500': #CC31ED,
  '600': #BD14E1,
  '700': #910fad,
  '800': #7E0D96,
  '900': #5C0E6C,
  '950': #390944,
);
$brand-base: #910fad;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF2FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F6E6FA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EEC5F6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E598F6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#D964F2", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#CC31ED", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#BD14E1", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#910fad", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#7E0D96", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5C0E6C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#390944", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #910fad · 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: #910fad 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: #F9E8FD at 6.26:1.

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
#910fad · 7.30:1
AA on whitealready passes
#910fad
The quick fox
#910fad · 7.30:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#910fad
The quick fox
#C414EA · 4.64:1
AA on black+13% L
#C414EA
The quick fox
#D864F1 · 7.01:1
AAA on black+30% L
#D864F1

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #910FAD 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
#910fad on white: 7.30:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#910fad on black: 2.88:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #910fad as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #910fad.

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 · #004FB1
deuteranopia · #1E5AAA
tritanopia · #903B66

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. #910fad 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.

#FBF2FC
#F6E6FA
#EEC5F6
#E598F6
#D964F2
#CC31ED
#BD14E1
#910fad
#7E0D96
#5C0E6C
#390944
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #FBF2FCDarkest = 950 · #390944Text 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 0.056 318.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.090 318.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.136 318.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.176 318.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.208 318.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.226 318.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.226 318.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.212 318.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.190 318.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.158 318.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.124 318.9);
}

Colors that work with #910fad

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#E5C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8D4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#59C00C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#620A75
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F9E8FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#211424
Dark-mode background
Hover#760C8C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#5A096B
Two steps down
Disabled#A57FAD
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#A806CA
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
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GlobexActive

How to use #910fad

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
  • Weight63/100
  • 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#2BAD0F
Analogous left#420FAD
Analogous right#AD0F7A
Split-complement 1#7AAD0F
Split-complement 2#0FAD42
Triadic 1#AD910F
Triadic 2#0FAD91
Tetradic#AD420F
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°289°

#910fad sits at 289°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red56.9%
Green5.9%
Blue67.8%
R · 0–255
145
0x91
G · 0–255
15
0x0f
B · 0–255
173
0xad

CMYK percentages

Cyan16.2%
Magenta91.3%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)32.2%

Total ink coverage is 140%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#910fad text on a black background

contrast 2.88:1

Card sample

#910fad text on a white background

contrast 7.30:1

Card sample

#910fad on grey

6.67:1

#910fad on its own surface

6.73:1

#910fad on its dark surface

2.42:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #910fad;
Background color
Panel with #910fad background
background-color: #910fad;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #910fad;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(145, 15, 173, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(145, 15, 173, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #910fad;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #910fad, #AD0F60);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #910fad, #AD0F38);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #910fad;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #910fad;
caret-color: #910fad;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #910fad;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F9E8FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #910fad;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#910fad 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #910fad 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(145, 15, 173, 0.5)
rgb(145 15 173 / 50%)
#910fad80
hsl(289 84% 37% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #910fad 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#910fad1a#F4E7F7
20%#910fad33#E9CFEF
40%#910fad66#D39FDE
60%#910fad99#BD6FCE
80%#910fadcc#A73FBD

Gradients from #910fad

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, #C014E5, #910fad 45%, #620A75);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #910fad, #910D45);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #910fad, #2BAD0F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CA2BED 0%, #910fad 45%, #620A75 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%, #4313DC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #C9127F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #620A75 0%, transparent 65%), #910fad;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #910fad

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.

#910fad 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 2.88:1 — lift it to #C414EA 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.

#910fad, answered

What color is #910fad?

#910fad is a dark electric violet, closest to Dark Violet (ΔE2000 5.4). It sits at 289° on the hue wheel with 84% saturation and 37% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #910fad?

rgb(145, 15, 173) — 145 red, 15 green and 173 blue out of 255, or 56.9% / 5.9% / 67.8% by channel.

What is #910fad in HSL and HSV?

hsl(289, 84%, 37%) and hsv(289, 91%, 68%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #910fad a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0938 and perceived brightness is 39%, so white text on it reaches 7.30:1.

Should I use black or white text on #910fad?

White. It scores 7.30:1 against #910fad, versus 2.88:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #910fad accessible on a white background?

#910fad on white scores 7.30:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #910fad?

#2BAD0F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #7AAD0F and #0FAD42, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #910fad?

For interface work: #F9F4FA as the surface, #E5C0ED for borders, #8D4B9B for secondary text, #59C00C as an accent and #620A75 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #420FAD and #AD0F7A stays calm, while #2BAD0F is the loudest partner.

What is #910fad in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(16%, 91%, 0%, 32%). 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 #910fad warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 56 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #AD0F8F; nudged cooler, #570DAF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #910fad?

The purple family — its 500 step is #a855f7, ΔE2000 17.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #910fad as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #910fad in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#910fad] or text-[#910fad], 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 #910fad with 50% opacity?

rgba(145, 15, 173, 0.5), or #910fad80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C887D6; over black, #490857.

Is #910fad a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #990099, ΔE2000 4.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #910fad 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 #910fad?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C014E5, #910fad 45%, #620A75). For more colour, a short hue run to #910D45 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #910fad in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #910fad at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.