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#993fff

a balanced, electric violet · cool · closest name: Blue Violet

Token name suggestion: Atlas Plum

RGB
153, 63, 255
HSL
268°, 100%, 62%
CMYK
40, 75, 0, 0
Luminance
0.1755

#993fff is a balanced electric violet, 268° on the wheel and 68/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (4.66:1). As text it scores 4.66:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Blue Violet, nearest Tailwind family is purple.

hsl(268 100% 62%)rgb(153 63 255)Base step 400AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #993fff is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#993fff
Hue
268°
violet
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
62%
balanced
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
51%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1755
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
68/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
4.66:1
Closest name
Blue Violet
ΔE2000 6.6
Chroma
107.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.592
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
purple
500 · ΔE 5.4
Web-safe
#9933FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue268° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness62%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #993fff.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool68% 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
Red39%
Green20%
Blue41%

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

Every format

HEX#993fff
HEX (8-digit)#993fffff
RGBrgb(153, 63, 255)
RGBArgba(153, 63, 255, 1)
HSLhsl(268, 100%, 62%)
HSV / HSBhsv(268, 75%, 100%)
HWBhwb(268 25% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(40%, 75%, 0%, 0%)
LABlab(48.9 71.4 -80.0)
LCHlch(48.9 107.2 311.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.592 0.262 299.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(32.96, 17.55, 96.24)
Decimal10043391
Display P3color(display-p3 0.600 0.247 1.000)
Web-safe#9933FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #993fff;
background-color: #993fff;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #993fff;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#993fff] bg-[#993fff]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #993fff;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.600, green: 0.247, blue: 1.000)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.600, green: 0.247, blue: 1.000, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#993FFF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF993FFF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF993FFF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(255, 63, 153)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(153, 63, 255)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(153, 63, 255)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 153, 63, 255)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6000f, 0.2471f, 1.0000f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{153,63,255}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #993fff 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #993fff 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3C0080, #E0D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #993fff 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: #F7F1FE;
  --brand-100: #EFE3FC;
  --brand-200: #DCC0FC;
  --brand-300: #C38FFF;
  --brand-400: #993fff;
  --brand-500: #881FFF;
  --brand-600: #7300F5;
  --brand-700: #6000CC;
  --brand-800: #4C00A3;
  --brand-900: #3A0576;
  --brand-950: #240349;
  --brand: #993fff;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F7F4FA;
  --brand-border: #D5C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #861CFF;
  --brand-pressed: #7400F7;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1C1424;
    --brand-ink: #E0D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F1FE',
        100: '#EFE3FC',
        200: '#DCC0FC',
        300: '#C38FFF',
        400: '#993fff',
        500: '#881FFF',
        600: '#7300F5',
        700: '#6000CC',
        800: '#4C00A3',
        900: '#3A0576',
        950: '#240349',
        DEFAULT: '#993fff',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F1FE,
  '100': #EFE3FC,
  '200': #DCC0FC,
  '300': #C38FFF,
  '400': #993fff,
  '500': #881FFF,
  '600': #7300F5,
  '700': #6000CC,
  '800': #4C00A3,
  '900': #3A0576,
  '950': #240349,
);
$brand-base: #993fff;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F1FE", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFE3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DCC0FC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C38FFF", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#993fff", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#881FFF", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#7300F5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#6000CC", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#4C00A3", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#3A0576", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#240349", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #993fff · 4.66:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.66:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.51:1
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #993fff as text scores 4.66:1 on white and 4.51:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F1E5FF at 3.86:1.

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
#993fff · 4.66:1
AA on whitealready passes
#993fff
The quick fox
#7100F2 · 7.04:1
AAA on white−15% L
#7100F2
The quick fox
#993fff · 4.51:1
AA on blackalready passes
#993fff
The quick fox
#B777FF · 7.10:1
AAA on black+11% L
#B777FF

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #993FFF 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
#993fff on white: 4.66:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#993fff on black: 4.51:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #993fff as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #993fff.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.66:1AaAa
Slate 504.45:1AaAa
Slate 1004.25:1AaAa
Slate 2003.78:1AaAa
Slate 3003.14:1AaAa
Slate 4001.82:1AaAa
Slate 5001.02:1AaAa
Slate 6001.63:1AaAa
Slate 7002.22:1AaAa
Slate 8003.14:1AaAa
Slate 9003.83:1AaAa
Black4.51:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0074FF
deuteranopia · #0073FB
tritanopia · #80729E

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. #993fff is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F7F1FE
#EFE3FC
#DCC0FC
#C38FFF
#993fff
#881FFF
#7300F5
#6000CC
#4C00A3
#3A0576
#240349
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F7F1FEDarkest = 950 · #240349Text step on white = 400
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 0.066 299.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.105 299.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.157 299.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.205 299.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.241 299.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.262 299.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.262 299.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.247 299.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.220 299.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.184 299.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.144 299.4);
}

Colors that work with #993fff

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#F7F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#D5C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#704B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#9FCC00
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3C0080
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1E5FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1C1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#861CFF
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7400F7
Two steps down
Disabled#D7CEE0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#A454FF
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 #993fff

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

Deep violets swallow detail on screens with poor gamma; check it on a cheap laptop panel.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight38/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

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#A5FF3F
Analogous left#3F45FF
Analogous right#F93FFF
Split-complement 1#FFF93F
Split-complement 2#45FF3F
Triadic 1#FF993F
Triadic 2#3FFF99
Tetradic#FF3F45
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°268°

#993fff sits at 268°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red60.0%
Green24.7%
Blue100.0%
R · 0–255
153
0x99
G · 0–255
63
0x3f
B · 0–255
255
0xff

CMYK percentages

Cyan40.0%
Magenta75.3%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 115%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#993fff text on a black background

contrast 4.51:1

Card sample

#993fff text on a white background

contrast 4.66:1

Card sample

#993fff on grey

4.25:1

#993fff on its own surface

4.27:1

#993fff on its dark surface

3.84:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #993fff;
Background color
Panel with #993fff background
background-color: #993fff;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #993fff;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(153, 63, 255, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(153, 63, 255, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #993fff;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #993fff, #FF3FE5);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #993fff, #FF3FB5);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #993fff;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #993fff;
caret-color: #993fff;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #993fff;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1E5FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #993fff;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#993fff 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #993fff 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(153, 63, 255, 0.5)
rgb(153 63 255 / 50%)
#993fff80
hsl(268 100% 62% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #993fff 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#993fff1a#F5ECFF
20%#993fff33#EBD9FF
40%#993fff66#D6B2FF
60%#993fff99#C28CFF
80%#993fffcc#AD65FF

Gradients from #993fff

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, #BA7CFF, #993fff 45%, #3C0080);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #993fff, #FF21CE);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #993fff, #A5FF3F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CA9BFF 0%, #993fff 45%, #3C0080 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #7282FF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FF5EF7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3C0080 0%, transparent 65%), #993fff;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #993fff

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.

#993fff 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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 4.51:1.

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.

#993fff, answered

What color is #993fff?

#993fff is a balanced electric violet, closest to Blue Violet (ΔE2000 6.6). It sits at 268° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 62% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #993fff?

rgb(153, 63, 255) — 153 red, 63 green and 255 blue out of 255, or 60% / 24.7% / 100% by channel.

What is #993fff in HSL and HSV?

hsl(268, 100%, 62%) and hsv(268, 75%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #993fff a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1755 and perceived brightness is 51%, so white text on it reaches 4.66:1.

Should I use black or white text on #993fff?

White. It scores 4.66:1 against #993fff, versus 4.51:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #993fff accessible on a white background?

#993fff on white scores 4.66:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #993fff?

#A5FF3F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FFF93F and #45FF3F, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #993fff?

For interface work: #F7F4FA as the surface, #D5C0ED for borders, #704B9B for secondary text, #9FCC00 as an accent and #3C0080 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #3F45FF and #F93FFF stays calm, while #A5FF3F is the loudest partner.

What is #993fff in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(40%, 75%, 0%, 0%). 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 #993fff warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 68 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DF3FFF; nudged cooler, #533FFF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #993fff?

The purple family — its 500 step is #a855f7, ΔE2000 5.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #993fff as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #993fff in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#993fff] or text-[#993fff], 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 #993fff with 50% opacity?

rgba(153, 63, 255, 0.5), or #993fff80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #CC9FFF; over black, #4D2080.

Is #993fff a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #9933FF, ΔE2000 1.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #993fff 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 #993fff?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #BA7CFF, #993fff 45%, #3C0080). For more colour, a short hue run to #FF21CE keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #993fff in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #993fff at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.