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violet · cool

#930cd9

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

Token name suggestion: Shadow Iris

RGB
147, 12, 217
HSL
280°, 90%, 45%
CMYK
32, 95, 0, 15
Luminance
0.1148

#930cd9 is a dark electric violet, 280° on the wheel and 61/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (6.37:1). As text it scores 6.37:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Violet, nearest Tailwind family is purple.

hsl(280 90% 45%)rgb(147 12 217)Base step 600AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #930cd9 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#930cd9
Hue
280°
violet
Saturation
90%
electric
Lightness
45%
dark
Brightness
85%
HSV value
Perceived
43%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1148
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
61/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
6.37:1
Closest name
Dark Violet
ΔE2000 1
Chroma
105.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.522
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
purple
500 · ΔE 13.3
Web-safe
#9900CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue280° of 360°
Saturation90%
Lightness45%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #930cd9.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool61% 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
Red54%
Green2%
Blue44%

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

Every format

HEX#930cd9
HEX (8-digit)#930cd9ff
RGBrgb(147, 12, 217)
RGBArgba(147, 12, 217, 1)
HSLhsl(280, 90%, 45%)
HSV / HSBhsv(280, 94%, 85%)
HWBhwb(280 5% 15%)
CMYKcmyk(32%, 95%, 0%, 15%)
LABlab(40.4 76.0 -72.5)
LCHlch(40.4 105.1 316.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.522 0.262 307.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(24.69, 11.48, 66.55)
Decimal9637081
Display P3color(display-p3 0.576 0.047 0.851)
Web-safe#9900CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #930cd9;
background-color: #930cd9;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #930cd9;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#930cd9] bg-[#930cd9]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #930cd9;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.576, green: 0.047, blue: 0.851)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.576, green: 0.047, blue: 0.851, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#930CD9</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF930CD9)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF930CD9)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(217, 12, 147)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(147, 12, 217)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(147, 12, 217)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 147, 12, 217)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5765f, 0.0471f, 0.8510f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{147,12,217}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #930cd9 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #930cd9 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#520779, #E5D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #930cd9 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: #F9F2FD;
  --brand-100: #F3E5FB;
  --brand-200: #E6C3F8;
  --brand-300: #D795F9;
  --brand-400: #C360F6;
  --brand-500: #AF2AF3;
  --brand-600: #930cd9;
  --brand-700: #830BC1;
  --brand-800: #69099B;
  --brand-900: #4D0B70;
  --brand-950: #300746;
  --brand: #930cd9;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F8F4FA;
  --brand-border: #DDC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #7C0AB7;
  --brand-pressed: #650895;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F1424;
    --brand-ink: #E5D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F2FD',
        100: '#F3E5FB',
        200: '#E6C3F8',
        300: '#D795F9',
        400: '#C360F6',
        500: '#AF2AF3',
        600: '#930cd9',
        700: '#830BC1',
        800: '#69099B',
        900: '#4D0B70',
        950: '#300746',
        DEFAULT: '#930cd9',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F2FD,
  '100': #F3E5FB,
  '200': #E6C3F8,
  '300': #D795F9,
  '400': #C360F6,
  '500': #AF2AF3,
  '600': #930cd9,
  '700': #830BC1,
  '800': #69099B,
  '900': #4D0B70,
  '950': #300746,
);
$brand-base: #930cd9;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F2FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3E5FB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E6C3F8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D795F9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C360F6", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#AF2AF3", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#930cd9", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#830BC1", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#69099B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4D0B70", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#300746", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #930cd9 · 6.37:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 6.37:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.30:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #930cd9 as text scores 6.37:1 on white and 3.30:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F6E7FE at 5.40:1.

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
#930cd9 · 6.37:1
AA on whitealready passes
#930cd9
The quick fox
#890BCA · 7.08:1
AAA on white−3% L
#890BCA
The quick fox
#B02FF3 · 4.55:1
AA on black+12% L
#B02FF3
The quick fox
#C86EF7 · 7.03:1
AAA on black+25% L
#C86EF7

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #930CD9 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
#930cd9 on white: 6.37:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#930cd9 on black: 3.30:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #930cd9 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #930cd9.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White6.37:1AaAa
Slate 506.09:1AaAa
Slate 1005.82:1AaAa
Slate 2005.17:1AaAa
Slate 3004.29:1AaAa
Slate 4002.49:1AaAa
Slate 5001.34:1AaAa
Slate 6001.19:1AaAa
Slate 7001.62:1AaAa
Slate 8002.30:1AaAa
Slate 9002.80:1AaAa
Black3.30:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #005BDE
deuteranopia · #0060D6
tritanopia · #875180

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. #930cd9 is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F9F2FD
#F3E5FB
#E6C3F8
#D795F9
#C360F6
#AF2AF3
#930cd9
#830BC1
#69099B
#4D0B70
#300746
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F9F2FDDarkest = 950 · #300746Text 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 0.065 307.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.105 307.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.157 307.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.204 307.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.241 307.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.262 307.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.262 307.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.246 307.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.220 307.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.183 307.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.144 307.8);
}

Colors that work with #930cd9

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#DDC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#7F4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#77C606
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#520779
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6E7FE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#7C0AB7
One step down in lightness
Pressed#650895
Two steps down
Disabled#B098BD
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#A401F9
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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Data
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How to use #930cd9

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
  • 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
  • Weight55/100
  • 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#52D90C
Analogous left#2C0CD9
Analogous right#D90CB9
Split-complement 1#B9D90C
Split-complement 2#0CD92C
Triadic 1#D9930C
Triadic 2#0CD993
Tetradic#D92C0C
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°280°

#930cd9 sits at 280°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red57.6%
Green4.7%
Blue85.1%
R · 0–255
147
0x93
G · 0–255
12
0x0c
B · 0–255
217
0xd9

CMYK percentages

Cyan32.3%
Magenta94.5%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)14.9%

Total ink coverage is 142%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#930cd9 text on a black background

contrast 3.30:1

Card sample

#930cd9 text on a white background

contrast 6.37:1

Card sample

#930cd9 on grey

5.82:1

#930cd9 on its own surface

5.86:1

#930cd9 on its dark surface

2.78:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #930cd9;
Background color
Panel with #930cd9 background
background-color: #930cd9;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #930cd9;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(147, 12, 217, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(147, 12, 217, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #930cd9;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #930cd9, #D90C96);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #930cd9, #D90C63);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #930cd9;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #930cd9;
caret-color: #930cd9;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #930cd9;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6E7FE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #930cd9;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#930cd9 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #930cd9 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(147, 12, 217, 0.5)
rgb(147 12 217 / 50%)
#930cd980
hsl(280 90% 45% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #930cd9 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#930cd91a#F4E7FB
20%#930cd933#E9CEF7
40%#930cd966#D49EF0
60%#930cd999#BE6DE8
80%#930cd9cc#A93DE1

Gradients from #930cd9

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, #B02FF3, #930cd9 45%, #520779);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #930cd9, #BC0A73);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #930cd9, #52D90C);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BB4CF5 0%, #930cd9 45%, #520779 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%, #3525F3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F212BC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #520779 0%, transparent 65%), #930cd9;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #930cd9

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.

#930cd9 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 3.30:1 — lift it to #B02FF3 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.

#930cd9, answered

What color is #930cd9?

#930cd9 is a dark electric violet, closest to Dark Violet (ΔE2000 1). It sits at 280° on the hue wheel with 90% saturation and 45% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #930cd9?

rgb(147, 12, 217) — 147 red, 12 green and 217 blue out of 255, or 57.6% / 4.7% / 85.1% by channel.

What is #930cd9 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(280, 90%, 45%) and hsv(280, 94%, 85%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #930cd9 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1148 and perceived brightness is 43%, so white text on it reaches 6.37:1.

Should I use black or white text on #930cd9?

White. It scores 6.37:1 against #930cd9, versus 3.30:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #930cd9 accessible on a white background?

#930cd9 on white scores 6.37:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #930cd9?

#52D90C sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #B9D90C and #0CD92C, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #930cd9?

For interface work: #F8F4FA as the surface, #DDC0ED for borders, #7F4B9B for secondary text, #77C606 as an accent and #520779 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #2C0CD9 and #D90CB9 stays calm, while #52D90C is the loudest partner.

What is #930cd9 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(32%, 95%, 0%, 15%). 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 #930cd9 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 61 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D90CD4; nudged cooler, #470ADB.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #930cd9?

The purple family — its 500 step is #a855f7, ΔE2000 13.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #930cd9 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #930cd9 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#930cd9] or text-[#930cd9], 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 #930cd9 with 50% opacity?

rgba(147, 12, 217, 0.5), or #930cd980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C986EC; over black, #4A066D.

Is #930cd9 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #9900CC, ΔE2000 2.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #930cd9 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 #930cd9?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #B02FF3, #930cd9 45%, #520779). For more colour, a short hue run to #BC0A73 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #930cd9 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #930cd9 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.