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#9502da

a dark, electric violet · cool · “Dark Violet”

Token name suggestion: Forest Thistle

RGB
149, 2, 218
HSL
281°, 98%, 43%
CMYK
32, 99, 0, 15
Luminance
0.1149

#9502da is a dark electric violet, 281° 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(281 98% 43%)rgb(149 2 218)Base step 700AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #9502da is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#9502da
Hue
281°
violet
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
43%
dark
Brightness
85%
HSV value
Perceived
43%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1149
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
106.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.523
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
purple
500 · ΔE 13.4
Web-safe
#9900CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue281° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness43%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #9502da.

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
Red56%
Green0%
Blue44%

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

Every format

HEX#9502da
HEX (8-digit)#9502daff
RGBrgb(149, 2, 218)
RGBArgba(149, 2, 218, 1)
HSLhsl(281, 98%, 43%)
HSV / HSBhsv(281, 99%, 85%)
HWBhwb(281 1% 15%)
CMYKcmyk(32%, 99%, 0%, 15%)
LABlab(40.4 77.5 -73.0)
LCHlch(40.4 106.5 316.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.523 0.266 308.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(25.07, 11.50, 67.21)
Decimal9765594
Display P3color(display-p3 0.584 0.008 0.855)
Web-safe#9900CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #9502da;
background-color: #9502da;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #9502da;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#9502da] bg-[#9502da]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #9502da;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.584, green: 0.008, blue: 0.855)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.584, green: 0.008, blue: 0.855, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#9502DA</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF9502DA)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF9502DA)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(218, 2, 149)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(149, 2, 218)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(149, 2, 218)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 149, 2, 218)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5843f, 0.0078f, 0.8549f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{149,2,218}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #9502da 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #9502da 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#56017E, #E5D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #9502da 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: #FAF1FD;
  --brand-100: #F4E3FC;
  --brand-200: #E8C1FB;
  --brand-300: #DB90FE;
  --brand-400: #C958FD;
  --brand-500: #B621FD;
  --brand-600: #A602F3;
  --brand-700: #9502da;
  --brand-800: #6E01A2;
  --brand-900: #510674;
  --brand-950: #330449;
  --brand: #9502da;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F8F4FA;
  --brand-border: #DEC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #7D02B6;
  --brand-pressed: #640193;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F1424;
    --brand-ink: #E5D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF1FD',
        100: '#F4E3FC',
        200: '#E8C1FB',
        300: '#DB90FE',
        400: '#C958FD',
        500: '#B621FD',
        600: '#A602F3',
        700: '#9502da',
        800: '#6E01A2',
        900: '#510674',
        950: '#330449',
        DEFAULT: '#9502da',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF1FD,
  '100': #F4E3FC,
  '200': #E8C1FB,
  '300': #DB90FE,
  '400': #C958FD,
  '500': #B621FD,
  '600': #A602F3,
  '700': #9502da,
  '800': #6E01A2,
  '900': #510674,
  '950': #330449,
);
$brand-base: #9502da;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF1FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4E3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E8C1FB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DB90FE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C958FD", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B621FD", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A602F3", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#9502da", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6E01A2", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#510674", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#330449", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #9502da · 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: #9502da 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: #F7E6FF at 5.37:1.

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
#9502da · 6.37:1
AA on whitealready passes
#9502da
The quick fox
#8A02CB · 7.11:1
AAA on white−3% L
#8A02CB
The quick fox
#B51CFD · 4.55:1
AA on black+12% L
#B51CFD
The quick fox
#CE68FE · 7.04:1
AAA on black+27% L
#CE68FE

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #9502DA 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
#9502da on white: 6.37:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#9502da on black: 3.30:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #9502da as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #9502da.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White6.37:1AaAa
Slate 506.08:1AaAa
Slate 1005.81:1AaAa
Slate 2005.16:1AaAa
Slate 3004.29:1AaAa
Slate 4002.48:1AaAa
Slate 5001.34:1AaAa
Slate 6001.19:1AaAa
Slate 7001.63:1AaAa
Slate 8002.30:1AaAa
Slate 9002.80:1AaAa
Black3.30:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #005BDF
deuteranopia · #0060D6
tritanopia · #895080

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. #9502da 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.

#FAF1FD
#F4E3FC
#E8C1FB
#DB90FE
#C958FD
#B621FD
#A602F3
#9502da
#6E01A2
#510674
#330449
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #FAF1FDDarkest = 950 · #330449Text 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 0.066 308.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.106 308.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.159 308.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.207 308.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.244 308.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.266 308.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.266 308.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.250 308.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.223 308.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.186 308.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.146 308.4);
}

Colors that work with #9502da

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#DEC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#814B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#74CC00
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#56017E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7E6FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#7D02B6
One step down in lightness
Pressed#640193
Two steps down
Disabled#AD92BA
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#A300F0
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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GlobexActive

How to use #9502da

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
  • Weight57/100
  • 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#47DA02
Analogous left#2902DA
Analogous right#DA02B3
Split-complement 1#B3DA02
Split-complement 2#02DA29
Triadic 1#DA9502
Triadic 2#02DA95
Tetradic#DA2902
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°281°

#9502da sits at 281°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red58.4%
Green0.8%
Blue85.5%
R · 0–255
149
0x95
G · 0–255
2
0x02
B · 0–255
218
0xda

CMYK percentages

Cyan31.7%
Magenta99.1%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)14.5%

Total ink coverage is 145%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#9502da text on a black background

contrast 3.30:1

Card sample

#9502da text on a white background

contrast 6.37:1

Card sample

#9502da on grey

5.81:1

#9502da on its own surface

5.85:1

#9502da on its dark surface

2.79:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #9502da;
Background color
Panel with #9502da background
background-color: #9502da;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #9502da;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(149, 2, 218, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(149, 2, 218, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #9502da;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #9502da, #DA028F);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #9502da, #DA0259);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #9502da;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #9502da;
caret-color: #9502da;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #9502da;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7E6FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #9502da;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#9502da 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #9502da 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(149, 2, 218, 0.5)
rgb(149 2 218 / 50%)
#9502da80
hsl(281 98% 43% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #9502da 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#9502da1a#F4E6FB
20%#9502da33#EACCF8
40%#9502da66#D59AF0
60%#9502da99#BF67E9
80%#9502dacc#AA35E1

Gradients from #9502da

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, #B51CFD, #9502da 45%, #56017E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #9502da, #BC026C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #9502da, #47DA02);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BF3AFD 0%, #9502da 45%, #56017E 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%, #2912FD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F802B7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #56017E 0%, transparent 65%), #9502da;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #9502da

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.

#9502da 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 #B51CFD 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.

#9502da, answered

What color is #9502da?

#9502da is a dark electric violet — the CSS keyword Dark Violet. It sits at 281° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 43% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #9502da?

rgb(149, 2, 218) — 149 red, 2 green and 218 blue out of 255, or 58.4% / 0.8% / 85.5% by channel.

What is #9502da in HSL and HSV?

hsl(281, 98%, 43%) and hsv(281, 99%, 85%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #9502da a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1149 and perceived brightness is 43%, so white text on it reaches 6.37:1.

Should I use black or white text on #9502da?

White. It scores 6.37:1 against #9502da, versus 3.30:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #9502da accessible on a white background?

#9502da on white scores 6.37:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #9502da?

#47DA02 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #B3DA02 and #02DA29, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #9502da?

For interface work: #F8F4FA as the surface, #DEC0ED for borders, #814B9B for secondary text, #74CC00 as an accent and #56017E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #2902DA and #DA02B3 stays calm, while #47DA02 is the loudest partner.

What is #9502da in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(32%, 99%, 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 #9502da 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 #DA02D0; nudged cooler, #4500DC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #9502da?

The purple family — its 500 step is #a855f7, ΔE2000 13.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #9502da as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #9502da in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#9502da] or text-[#9502da], 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 #9502da with 50% opacity?

rgba(149, 2, 218, 0.5), or #9502da80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #CA81ED; over black, #4B016D.

Is #9502da a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #9900CC, ΔE2000 2.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #9502da 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 #9502da?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #B51CFD, #9502da 45%, #56017E). For more colour, a short hue run to #BC026C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #9502da in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #9502da at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.