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#972792

a dark, vivid magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Dark Magenta

Token name suggestion: Forest Peony

RGB
151, 39, 146
HSL
303°, 59%, 37%
CMYK
0, 74, 3, 41
Luminance
0.1011

#972792 is a dark vivid magenta / pink, 303° on the wheel and 48/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (6.95:1). As text it scores 6.95:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Magenta, nearest Tailwind family is purple.

hsl(303 59% 37%)rgb(151 39 146)Base step 700AA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #972792 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#972792
Hue
303°
magenta / pink
Saturation
59%
vivid
Lightness
37%
dark
Brightness
59%
HSV value
Perceived
39%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1011
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
48/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
6.95:1
Closest name
Dark Magenta
ΔE2000 4.8
Chroma
67.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.491
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
purple
500 · ΔE 19
Web-safe
#993399
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue303° of 360°
Saturation59%
Lightness37%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #972792.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool48% 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
Red65%
Green14%
Blue21%

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

Every format

HEX#972792
HEX (8-digit)#972792ff
RGBrgb(151, 39, 146)
RGBArgba(151, 39, 146, 1)
HSLhsl(303, 59%, 37%)
HSV / HSBhsv(303, 74%, 59%)
HWBhwb(303 15% 41%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 74%, 3%, 41%)
LABlab(38.0 57.8 -34.3)
LCHlch(38.0 67.2 329.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.491 0.189 330.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(18.68, 10.11, 28.16)
Decimal9906066
Display P3color(display-p3 0.592 0.153 0.573)
Web-safe#993399

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #972792;
background-color: #972792;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #972792;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#972792] bg-[#972792]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #972792;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.592, green: 0.153, blue: 0.573)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.592, green: 0.153, blue: 0.573, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#972792</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF972792)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF972792)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(146, 39, 151)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(151, 39, 146)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(151, 39, 146)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 151, 39, 146)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5922f, 0.1529f, 0.5725f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{151,39,146}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #972792 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #972792 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#651A62, #EED3ED);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #972792 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: #FBF4FB;
  --brand-100: #F7E9F6;
  --brand-200: #EFCDED;
  --brand-300: #E8A6E5;
  --brand-400: #DC79D8;
  --brand-500: #D14DCB;
  --brand-600: #C232BC;
  --brand-700: #972792;
  --brand-800: #82227D;
  --brand-900: #5E1C5B;
  --brand-950: #3B1239;
  --brand: #972792;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EDC0EB;
  --brand-hover: #7B2077;
  --brand-pressed: #5E185B;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241424;
    --brand-ink: #EED3ED;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF4FB',
        100: '#F7E9F6',
        200: '#EFCDED',
        300: '#E8A6E5',
        400: '#DC79D8',
        500: '#D14DCB',
        600: '#C232BC',
        700: '#972792',
        800: '#82227D',
        900: '#5E1C5B',
        950: '#3B1239',
        DEFAULT: '#972792',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF4FB,
  '100': #F7E9F6,
  '200': #EFCDED,
  '300': #E8A6E5,
  '400': #DC79D8,
  '500': #D14DCB,
  '600': #C232BC,
  '700': #972792,
  '800': #82227D,
  '900': #5E1C5B,
  '950': #3B1239,
);
$brand-base: #972792;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF4FB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7E9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EFCDED", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E8A6E5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#DC79D8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D14DCB", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#C232BC", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#972792", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#82227D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5E1C5B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3B1239", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #972792 · 6.95:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 6.95:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.02:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #972792 as text scores 6.95:1 on white and 3.02:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FAEBF9 at 6.06:1.

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
#972792 · 6.95:1
AA on whitealready passes
#972792
The quick fox
#93268E · 7.22:1
AAA on white−1% L
#93268E
The quick fox
#C433BD · 4.56:1
AA on black+11% L
#C433BD
The quick fox
#DA6ED5 · 7.17:1
AAA on black+27% L
#DA6ED5

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #972792 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
#972792 on white: 6.95:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#972792 on black: 3.02:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #972792 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #972792.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White6.95:1AaAa
Slate 506.64:1AaAa
Slate 1006.34:1AaAa
Slate 2005.64:1AaAa
Slate 3004.68:1AaAa
Slate 4002.71:1AaAa
Slate 5001.46:1AaAa
Slate 6001.09:1AaAa
Slate 7001.49:1AaAa
Slate 8002.10:1AaAa
Slate 9002.57:1AaAa
Black3.02:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #195095
deuteranopia · #485F8F
tritanopia · #9D365A

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. #972792 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.

#FBF4FB
#F7E9F6
#EFCDED
#E8A6E5
#DC79D8
#D14DCB
#C232BC
#972792
#82227D
#5E1C5B
#3B1239
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #FBF4FBDarkest = 950 · #3B1239Text 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 0.047 330.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.076 330.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.113 330.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.147 330.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.174 330.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.189 330.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.189 330.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.178 330.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.159 330.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.132 330.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.104 330.0);
}

Colors that work with #972792

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#FAF4FA
Tinted page background
Border#EDC0EB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B97
Captions on the surface
Accent#3C9B23
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#651A62
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAEBF9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241424
Dark-mode background
Hover#7B2077
One step down in lightness
Pressed#5E185B
Two steps down
Disabled#AE80AC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B221AB
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #972792

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.

expressiveyouthfulwarmconfident

Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

Strong gendered associations in some markets — test it with the audience you actually have.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • 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#27972C
Analogous left#642797
Analogous right#97275A
Split-complement 1#5A9727
Split-complement 2#279764
Triadic 1#929727
Triadic 2#279297
Tetradic#976427
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°303°

#972792 sits at 303°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red59.2%
Green15.3%
Blue57.3%
R · 0–255
151
0x97
G · 0–255
39
0x27
B · 0–255
146
0x92

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta74.2%
Yellow3.3%
Key (black)40.8%

Total ink coverage is 118%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#972792 text on a black background

contrast 3.02:1

Card sample

#972792 text on a white background

contrast 6.95:1

Card sample

#972792 on grey

6.34:1

#972792 on its own surface

6.42:1

#972792 on its dark surface

2.52:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #972792;
Background color
Panel with #972792 background
background-color: #972792;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #972792;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(151, 39, 146, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(151, 39, 146, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #972792;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #972792, #972747);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #972792, #97272B);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #972792;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #972792;
caret-color: #972792;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #972792;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAEBF9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #972792;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#972792 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #972792 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(151, 39, 146, 0.5)
rgb(151 39 146 / 50%)
#97279280
hsl(303 59% 37% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #972792 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#9727921a#F5E9F4
20%#97279233#EAD4E9
40%#97279266#D5A9D3
60%#97279299#C17DBE
80%#972792cc#AC52A8

Gradients from #972792

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, #C834C1, #972792 45%, #651A62);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #972792, #7F2134);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #972792, #27972C);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #D04ACA 0%, #972792 45%, #651A62 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #7332C0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #AF2D5E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #651A62 0%, transparent 65%), #972792;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #972792

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.

#972792 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
BeautyFashionLifestyleYouth brands
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 3.02:1 — lift it to #C433BD 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.

#972792, answered

What color is #972792?

#972792 is a dark vivid magenta / pink, closest to Dark Magenta (ΔE2000 4.8). It sits at 303° on the hue wheel with 59% saturation and 37% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #972792?

rgb(151, 39, 146) — 151 red, 39 green and 146 blue out of 255, or 59.2% / 15.3% / 57.3% by channel.

What is #972792 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(303, 59%, 37%) and hsv(303, 74%, 59%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #972792 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1011 and perceived brightness is 39%, so white text on it reaches 6.95:1.

Should I use black or white text on #972792?

White. It scores 6.95:1 against #972792, versus 3.02:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #972792 accessible on a white background?

#972792 on white scores 6.95:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #972792?

#27972C sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #5A9727 and #279764, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #972792?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EDC0EB for borders, #9B4B97 for secondary text, #3C9B23 as an accent and #651A62 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #642797 and #97275A stays calm, while #27972C is the loudest partner.

What is #972792 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 74%, 3%, 41%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #972792 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 48 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #972769; nudged cooler, #742599.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #972792?

The purple family — its 500 step is #a855f7, ΔE2000 19 away. That is a visible difference, so define #972792 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #972792 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#972792] or text-[#972792], 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 #972792 with 50% opacity?

rgba(151, 39, 146, 0.5), or #97279280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #CB93C9; over black, #4C1449.

Is #972792 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #993399, ΔE2000 2.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #972792 mean?

As a magenta / pink, it reads expressive, youthful, warm. Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #972792?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C834C1, #972792 45%, #651A62). For more colour, a short hue run to #7F2134 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #972792 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #972792 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.