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violet · cool

#a93df2

a balanced, electric violet · cool · closest name: Dark Orchid

Token name suggestion: Signal Amethyst

RGB
169, 61, 242
HSL
276°, 87%, 59%
CMYK
30, 75, 0, 5
Luminance
0.1818

#a93df2 is a balanced electric violet, 276° on the wheel and 63/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (4.64:1). As text it scores 4.53:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Orchid, nearest Tailwind family is purple.

hsl(276 87% 59%)rgb(169 61 242)Base step 500AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #a93df2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#a93df2
Hue
276°
violet
Saturation
87%
electric
Lightness
59%
balanced
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
52%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1818
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
63/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
4.64:1
Closest name
Dark Orchid
ΔE2000 6.8
Chroma
101.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.599
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
purple
500 · ΔE 4.5
Web-safe
#9933FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue276° of 360°
Saturation87%
Lightness59%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #a93df2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool63% 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
Red46%
Green18%
Blue35%

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

Every format

HEX#a93df2
HEX (8-digit)#a93df2ff
RGBrgb(169, 61, 242)
RGBArgba(169, 61, 242, 1)
HSLhsl(276, 87%, 59%)
HSV / HSBhsv(276, 75%, 95%)
HWBhwb(276 24% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(30%, 75%, 0%, 5%)
LABlab(49.7 71.9 -71.3)
LCHlch(49.7 101.3 315.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.599 0.255 307.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(34.05, 18.18, 85.70)
Decimal11091442
Display P3color(display-p3 0.663 0.239 0.949)
Web-safe#9933FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #a93df2;
background-color: #a93df2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #a93df2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#a93df2] bg-[#a93df2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #a93df2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.663, green: 0.239, blue: 0.949)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.663, green: 0.239, blue: 0.949, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#A93DF2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFA93DF2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFA93DF2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(242, 61, 169)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(169, 61, 242)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(169, 61, 242)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 169, 61, 242)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6627f, 0.2392f, 0.9490f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{169,61,242}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #a93df2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #a93df2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4B0877, #E3D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #a93df2 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: #F8F2FD;
  --brand-100: #F2E5FA;
  --brand-200: #E3C4F8;
  --brand-300: #D096F8;
  --brand-400: #B961F4;
  --brand-500: #a93df2;
  --brand-600: #8F0FE5;
  --brand-700: #770DBF;
  --brand-800: #5F0A99;
  --brand-900: #470C6E;
  --brand-950: #2C0745;
  --brand: #a93df2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8F4FA;
  --brand-border: #DBC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #9A1CF0;
  --brand-pressed: #870FD9;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1E1424;
    --brand-ink: #E3D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8F2FD',
        100: '#F2E5FA',
        200: '#E3C4F8',
        300: '#D096F8',
        400: '#B961F4',
        500: '#a93df2',
        600: '#8F0FE5',
        700: '#770DBF',
        800: '#5F0A99',
        900: '#470C6E',
        950: '#2C0745',
        DEFAULT: '#a93df2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8F2FD,
  '100': #F2E5FA,
  '200': #E3C4F8,
  '300': #D096F8,
  '400': #B961F4,
  '500': #a93df2,
  '600': #8F0FE5,
  '700': #770DBF,
  '800': #5F0A99,
  '900': #470C6E,
  '950': #2C0745,
);
$brand-base: #a93df2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8F2FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2E5FA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E3C4F8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D096F8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#B961F4", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#a93df2", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#8F0FE5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#770DBF", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#5F0A99", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#470C6E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2C0745", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$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#000000 on #a93df2 · 4.64:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.53:1
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.64:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #a93df2 as text scores 4.53:1 on white and 4.64:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #4B0877 at 2.90:1.

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
#a93df2 · 4.53:1
AA on whitealready passes
#a93df2
The quick fox
#840ED4 · 7.01:1
AAA on white−15% L
#840ED4
The quick fox
#a93df2 · 4.64:1
AA on blackalready passes
#a93df2
The quick fox
#C276F6 · 7.22:1
AAA on black+12% L
#C276F6

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #A93DF2 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
#a93df2 on white: 4.53:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#a93df2 on black: 4.64:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #a93df2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #a93df2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.53:1AaAa
Slate 504.33:1AaAa
Slate 1004.13:1AaAa
Slate 2003.67:1AaAa
Slate 3003.05:1AaAa
Slate 4001.77:1AaAa
Slate 5001.05:1AaAa
Slate 6001.67:1AaAa
Slate 7002.29:1AaAa
Slate 8003.23:1AaAa
Slate 9003.94:1AaAa
Black4.64:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0073F7
deuteranopia · #0077EE
tritanopia · #9D6A96

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. #a93df2 is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F8F2FD
#F2E5FA
#E3C4F8
#D096F8
#B961F4
#a93df2
#8F0FE5
#770DBF
#5F0A99
#470C6E
#2C0745
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F8F2FDDarkest = 950 · #2C0745Text 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 0.064 307.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.102 307.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.153 307.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.199 307.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.235 307.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.255 307.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.255 307.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.240 307.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.214 307.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.179 307.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.140 307.3);
}

Colors that work with #a93df2

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F8F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#DBC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#7B4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#82C309
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4B0877
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F4E7FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1E1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#9A1CF0
One step down in lightness
Pressed#870FD9
Two steps down
Disabled#D2C5DA
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B347FD
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 #a93df2

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
  • Weight41/100
  • 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#86F23D
Analogous left#4E3DF2
Analogous right#F23DE0
Split-complement 1#E0F23D
Split-complement 2#3DF24E
Triadic 1#F2A93D
Triadic 2#3DF2A9
Tetradic#F24E3D
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°276°

#a93df2 sits at 276°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red66.3%
Green23.9%
Blue94.9%
R · 0–255
169
0xa9
G · 0–255
61
0x3d
B · 0–255
242
0xf2

CMYK percentages

Cyan30.2%
Magenta74.8%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)5.1%

Total ink coverage is 110%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#a93df2 text on a black background

contrast 4.64:1

Card sample

#a93df2 text on a white background

contrast 4.53:1

Card sample

#a93df2 on grey

4.13:1

#a93df2 on its own surface

4.17:1

#a93df2 on its dark surface

3.93:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #a93df2;
Background color
Panel with #a93df2 background
background-color: #a93df2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #a93df2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(169, 61, 242, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(169, 61, 242, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #a93df2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #a93df2, #F23DC2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #a93df2, #F23D95);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #a93df2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #a93df2;
caret-color: #a93df2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #a93df2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F4E7FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #a93df2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#a93df2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #a93df2 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(169, 61, 242, 0.5)
rgb(169 61 242 / 50%)
#a93df280
hsl(276 87% 59% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #a93df2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#a93df21a#F6ECFE
20%#a93df233#EED8FC
40%#a93df266#DDB1FA
60%#a93df299#CB8BF7
80%#a93df2cc#BA64F5

Gradients from #a93df2

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, #C276F6, #a93df2 45%, #4B0877);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #a93df2, #F020A8);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #a93df2, #86F23D);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CF93F8 0%, #a93df2 45%, #4B0877 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%, #6F6DF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F45AD8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4B0877 0%, transparent 65%), #a93df2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #a93df2

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.

#a93df2 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 4.64:1.

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.

#a93df2, answered

What color is #a93df2?

#a93df2 is a balanced electric violet, closest to Dark Orchid (ΔE2000 6.8). It sits at 276° on the hue wheel with 87% saturation and 59% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #a93df2?

rgb(169, 61, 242) — 169 red, 61 green and 242 blue out of 255, or 66.3% / 23.9% / 94.9% by channel.

What is #a93df2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(276, 87%, 59%) and hsv(276, 75%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #a93df2 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.1818 and perceived brightness is 52%, so black text on it reaches 4.64:1.

Should I use black or white text on #a93df2?

Black. It scores 4.64:1 against #a93df2, versus 4.53:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #a93df2 accessible on a white background?

#a93df2 on white scores 4.53:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #a93df2?

#86F23D sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E0F23D and #3DF24E, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #a93df2?

For interface work: #F8F4FA as the surface, #DBC0ED for borders, #7B4B9B for secondary text, #82C309 as an accent and #4B0877 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #4E3DF2 and #F23DE0 stays calm, while #86F23D is the loudest partner.

What is #a93df2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(30%, 75%, 0%, 5%). 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 #a93df2 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 63 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #EB3DF2; nudged cooler, #653BF4.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #a93df2?

The purple family — its 500 step is #a855f7, ΔE2000 4.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #a93df2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #a93df2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#a93df2] or text-[#a93df2], 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 #a93df2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(169, 61, 242, 0.5), or #a93df280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D49EF9; over black, #551F79.

Is #a93df2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #9933FF, ΔE2000 3.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #a93df2 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 #a93df2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C276F6, #a93df2 45%, #4B0877). For more colour, a short hue run to #F020A8 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #a93df2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #a93df2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.