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violet · neutral

#950fbc

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

Token name suggestion: Dusk Plum

RGB
149, 15, 188
HSL
287°, 85%, 40%
CMYK
21, 92, 0, 26
Luminance
0.1036

#950fbc is a dark electric violet, 287° on the wheel and 58/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (6.84:1). As text it scores 6.84:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Violet, nearest Tailwind family is purple.

hsl(287 85% 40%)rgb(149 15 188)Base step 700AA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #950fbc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#950fbc
Hue
287°
violet
Saturation
85%
electric
Lightness
40%
dark
Brightness
74%
HSV value
Perceived
41%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1036
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
58/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
6.84:1
Closest name
Dark Violet
ΔE2000 3.2
Chroma
91.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.502
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
purple
500 · ΔE 15.4
Web-safe
#9900CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue287° of 360°
Saturation85%
Lightness40%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #950fbc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool58% 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
Red62%
Green3%
Blue35%

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

Every format

HEX#950fbc
HEX (8-digit)#950fbcff
RGBrgb(149, 15, 188)
RGBArgba(149, 15, 188, 1)
HSLhsl(287, 85%, 40%)
HSV / HSBhsv(286, 92%, 74%)
HWBhwb(287 6% 26%)
CMYKcmyk(21%, 92%, 0%, 26%)
LABlab(38.5 70.5 -58.7)
LCHlch(38.5 91.7 320.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.502 0.239 315.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(21.64, 10.36, 48.43)
Decimal9768892
Display P3color(display-p3 0.584 0.059 0.737)
Web-safe#9900CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #950fbc;
background-color: #950fbc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #950fbc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#950fbc] bg-[#950fbc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #950fbc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.584, green: 0.059, blue: 0.737)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.584, green: 0.059, blue: 0.737, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#950FBC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF950FBC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF950FBC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(188, 15, 149)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(149, 15, 188)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(149, 15, 188)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 149, 15, 188)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5843f, 0.0588f, 0.7373f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{149,15,188}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #950fbc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #950fbc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#5E0976, #E8D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #950fbc 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: #FAF2FC;
  --brand-100: #F5E5FA;
  --brand-200: #ECC5F7;
  --brand-300: #E197F7;
  --brand-400: #D263F3;
  --brand-500: #C32FEE;
  --brand-600: #B412E3;
  --brand-700: #950fbc;
  --brand-800: #780C97;
  --brand-900: #580D6D;
  --brand-950: #370844;
  --brand: #950fbc;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F9F4FA;
  --brand-border: #E3C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #7B0C9B;
  --brand-pressed: #610A7A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #211424;
    --brand-ink: #E8D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF2FC',
        100: '#F5E5FA',
        200: '#ECC5F7',
        300: '#E197F7',
        400: '#D263F3',
        500: '#C32FEE',
        600: '#B412E3',
        700: '#950fbc',
        800: '#780C97',
        900: '#580D6D',
        950: '#370844',
        DEFAULT: '#950fbc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF2FC,
  '100': #F5E5FA,
  '200': #ECC5F7,
  '300': #E197F7,
  '400': #D263F3,
  '500': #C32FEE,
  '600': #B412E3,
  '700': #950fbc,
  '800': #780C97,
  '900': #580D6D,
  '950': #370844,
);
$brand-base: #950fbc;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF2FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F5E5FA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#ECC5F7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E197F7", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#D263F3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#C32FEE", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#B412E3", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#950fbc", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#780C97", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#580D6D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#370844", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #950fbc · 6.84:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 6.84:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.07:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #950fbc as text scores 6.84:1 on white and 3.07:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F8E7FD at 5.81:1.

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
#950fbc · 6.84:1
AA on whitealready passes
#950fbc
The quick fox
#910FB7 · 7.10:1
AAA on white−1% L
#910FB7
The quick fox
#BE1BED · 4.57:1
AA on black+12% L
#BE1BED
The quick fox
#D367F3 · 7.00:1
AAA on black+28% L
#D367F3

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #950FBC 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
#950fbc on white: 6.84:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#950fbc on black: 3.07:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #950fbc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #950fbc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White6.84:1AaAa
Slate 506.53:1AaAa
Slate 1006.24:1AaAa
Slate 2005.54:1AaAa
Slate 3004.60:1AaAa
Slate 4002.67:1AaAa
Slate 5001.44:1AaAa
Slate 6001.11:1AaAa
Slate 7001.51:1AaAa
Slate 8002.14:1AaAa
Slate 9002.61:1AaAa
Black3.07:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0054C0
deuteranopia · #005EB9
tritanopia · #92426F

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. #950fbc 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.

#FAF2FC
#F5E5FA
#ECC5F7
#E197F7
#D263F3
#C32FEE
#B412E3
#950fbc
#780C97
#580D6D
#370844
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #FAF2FCDarkest = 950 · #370844Text 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 0.060 315.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.095 315.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.143 315.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.186 315.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.220 315.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.239 315.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.239 315.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.224 315.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.200 315.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.167 315.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.131 315.9);
}

Colors that work with #950fbc

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#E3C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#894B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#61C10B
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#5E0976
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F8E7FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#211424
Dark-mode background
Hover#7B0C9B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#610A7A
Two steps down
Disabled#A988B3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#AA05DA
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.

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How to use #950fbc

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
  • Weight60/100
  • 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#36BC0F
Analogous left#3F0FBC
Analogous right#BC0F8C
Split-complement 1#8CBC0F
Split-complement 2#0FBC3F
Triadic 1#BC950F
Triadic 2#0FBC95
Tetradic#BC3F0F
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°287°

#950fbc sits at 287°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red58.4%
Green5.9%
Blue73.7%
R · 0–255
149
0x95
G · 0–255
15
0x0f
B · 0–255
188
0xbc

CMYK percentages

Cyan20.7%
Magenta92.0%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)26.3%

Total ink coverage is 139%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#950fbc text on a black background

contrast 3.07:1

Card sample

#950fbc text on a white background

contrast 6.84:1

Card sample

#950fbc on grey

6.24:1

#950fbc on its own surface

6.30:1

#950fbc on its dark surface

2.58:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #950fbc;
Background color
Panel with #950fbc background
background-color: #950fbc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #950fbc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(149, 15, 188, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(149, 15, 188, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #950fbc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #950fbc, #BC0F70);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #950fbc, #BC0F44);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #950fbc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #950fbc;
caret-color: #950fbc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #950fbc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F8E7FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #950fbc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#950fbc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #950fbc 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, 15, 188, 0.5)
rgb(149 15 188 / 50%)
#950fbc80
hsl(287 85% 40% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #950fbc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#950fbc1a#F4E7F8
20%#950fbc33#EACFF2
40%#950fbc66#D59FE4
60%#950fbc99#BF6FD7
80%#950fbccc#AA3FC9

Gradients from #950fbc

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, #BE1BED, #950fbc 45%, #5E0976);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #950fbc, #A00D53);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #950fbc, #36BC0F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #C638EF 0%, #950fbc 45%, #5E0976 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%, #3C13EB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D81191 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #5E0976 0%, transparent 65%), #950fbc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #950fbc

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.

#950fbc 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 3.07:1 — lift it to #BE1BED 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.

#950fbc, answered

What color is #950fbc?

#950fbc is a dark electric violet, closest to Dark Violet (ΔE2000 3.2). It sits at 287° on the hue wheel with 85% saturation and 40% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #950fbc?

rgb(149, 15, 188) — 149 red, 15 green and 188 blue out of 255, or 58.4% / 5.9% / 73.7% by channel.

What is #950fbc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(287, 85%, 40%) and hsv(286, 92%, 74%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #950fbc a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1036 and perceived brightness is 41%, so white text on it reaches 6.84:1.

Should I use black or white text on #950fbc?

White. It scores 6.84:1 against #950fbc, versus 3.07:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #950fbc accessible on a white background?

#950fbc on white scores 6.84:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #950fbc?

#36BC0F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #8CBC0F and #0FBC3F, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #950fbc?

For interface work: #F9F4FA as the surface, #E3C0ED for borders, #894B9B for secondary text, #61C10B as an accent and #5E0976 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #3F0FBC and #BC0F8C stays calm, while #36BC0F is the loudest partner.

What is #950fbc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(21%, 92%, 0%, 26%). 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 #950fbc warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 58 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BC0FA3; nudged cooler, #550DBE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #950fbc?

The purple family — its 500 step is #a855f7, ΔE2000 15.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #950fbc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #950fbc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#950fbc] or text-[#950fbc], 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 #950fbc with 50% opacity?

rgba(149, 15, 188, 0.5), or #950fbc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #CA87DE; over black, #4B085E.

Is #950fbc 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 #950fbc 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 #950fbc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #BE1BED, #950fbc 45%, #5E0976). For more colour, a short hue run to #A00D53 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #950fbc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #950fbc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.