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violet · cool

#aa2cfb

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

Token name suggestion: Atlas Iris

RGB
170, 44, 251
HSL
277°, 96%, 58%
CMYK
32, 83, 0, 2
Luminance
0.1731

#aa2cfb is a balanced electric violet, 277° on the wheel and 63/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (4.71:1). As text it scores 4.71:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Blue Violet, nearest Tailwind family is purple.

hsl(277 96% 58%)rgb(170 44 251)Base step 500AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #aa2cfb is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#aa2cfb
Hue
277°
violet
Saturation
96%
electric
Lightness
58%
balanced
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
51%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1731
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
63/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
4.71:1
Closest name
Blue Violet
ΔE2000 6.6
Chroma
111.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.594
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
purple
500 · ΔE 6.2
Web-safe
#9933FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue277° of 360°
Saturation96%
Lightness58%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #aa2cfb.

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
Red49%
Green10%
Blue40%

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

Every format

HEX#aa2cfb
HEX (8-digit)#aa2cfbff
RGBrgb(170, 44, 251)
RGBArgba(170, 44, 251, 1)
HSLhsl(277, 96%, 58%)
HSV / HSBhsv(277, 82%, 98%)
HWBhwb(277 17% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(32%, 83%, 0%, 2%)
LABlab(48.6 79.3 -78.1)
LCHlch(48.6 111.3 315.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.594 0.278 306.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(34.89, 17.31, 92.75)
Decimal11152635
Display P3color(display-p3 0.667 0.173 0.984)
Web-safe#9933FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #aa2cfb;
background-color: #aa2cfb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #aa2cfb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#aa2cfb] bg-[#aa2cfb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #aa2cfb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.667, green: 0.173, blue: 0.984)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.667, green: 0.173, blue: 0.984, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#AA2CFB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFAA2CFB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFAA2CFB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(251, 44, 170)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(170, 44, 251)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(170, 44, 251)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 170, 44, 251)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6667f, 0.1725f, 0.9843f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{170,44,251}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #aa2cfb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #aa2cfb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4D027D, #E3D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #aa2cfb 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: #F9F1FD;
  --brand-100: #F2E4FC;
  --brand-200: #E4C1FA;
  --brand-300: #D391FD;
  --brand-400: #BC5AFC;
  --brand-500: #aa2cfb;
  --brand-600: #9405F0;
  --brand-700: #7B04C8;
  --brand-800: #6303A0;
  --brand-900: #490773;
  --brand-950: #2E0448;
  --brand: #aa2cfb;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F8F4FA;
  --brand-border: #DBC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #9C09FA;
  --brand-pressed: #8704DB;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1E1424;
    --brand-ink: #E3D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F1FD',
        100: '#F2E4FC',
        200: '#E4C1FA',
        300: '#D391FD',
        400: '#BC5AFC',
        500: '#aa2cfb',
        600: '#9405F0',
        700: '#7B04C8',
        800: '#6303A0',
        900: '#490773',
        950: '#2E0448',
        DEFAULT: '#aa2cfb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F1FD,
  '100': #F2E4FC,
  '200': #E4C1FA,
  '300': #D391FD,
  '400': #BC5AFC,
  '500': #aa2cfb,
  '600': #9405F0,
  '700': #7B04C8,
  '800': #6303A0,
  '900': #490773,
  '950': #2E0448,
);
$brand-base: #aa2cfb;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F1FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2E4FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E4C1FA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D391FD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#BC5AFC", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#aa2cfb", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#9405F0", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7B04C8", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6303A0", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#490773", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2E0448", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #aa2cfb · 4.71:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.71:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.46:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #aa2cfb as text scores 4.71:1 on white and 4.46:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F5E6FF at 3.95:1.

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
#aa2cfb · 4.71:1
AA on whitealready passes
#aa2cfb
The quick fox
#8404D6 · 7.07:1
AAA on white−15% L
#8404D6
The quick fox
#AC31FB · 4.59:1
AA on black+1% L
#AC31FB
The quick fox
#C672FC · 7.21:1
AAA on black+14% L
#C672FC

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #AA2CFB 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
#aa2cfb on white: 4.71:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#aa2cfb on black: 4.46:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #aa2cfb as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #aa2cfb.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.71:1AaAa
Slate 504.50:1AaAa
Slate 1004.30:1AaAa
Slate 2003.82:1AaAa
Slate 3003.17:1AaAa
Slate 4001.84:1AaAa
Slate 5001.01:1AaAa
Slate 6001.61:1AaAa
Slate 7002.20:1AaAa
Slate 8003.11:1AaAa
Slate 9003.79:1AaAa
Black4.46:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0070FF
deuteranopia · #0074F7
tritanopia · #9C6798

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. #aa2cfb 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.

#F9F1FD
#F2E4FC
#E4C1FA
#D391FD
#BC5AFC
#aa2cfb
#9405F0
#7B04C8
#6303A0
#490773
#2E0448
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F9F1FDDarkest = 950 · #2E0448Text 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 0.069 306.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.111 306.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.167 306.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.217 306.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.255 306.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.278 306.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.278 306.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.261 306.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.233 306.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.194 306.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.153 306.7);
}

Colors that work with #aa2cfb

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#DBC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#7B4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#83CC00
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4D027D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5E6FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1E1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#9C09FA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#8704DB
Two steps down
Disabled#CEC0D7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B33CFF
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 #aa2cfb

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
  • 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
  • Weight42/100
  • 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#7DFB2C
Analogous left#422CFB
Analogous right#FB2CE5
Split-complement 1#E5FB2C
Split-complement 2#2CFB42
Triadic 1#FBAA2C
Triadic 2#2CFBAA
Tetradic#FB422C
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°277°

#aa2cfb sits at 277°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red66.7%
Green17.3%
Blue98.4%
R · 0–255
170
0xaa
G · 0–255
44
0x2c
B · 0–255
251
0xfb

CMYK percentages

Cyan32.3%
Magenta82.5%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 116%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#aa2cfb text on a black background

contrast 4.46:1

Card sample

#aa2cfb text on a white background

contrast 4.71:1

Card sample

#aa2cfb on grey

4.30:1

#aa2cfb on its own surface

4.33:1

#aa2cfb on its dark surface

3.78:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #aa2cfb;
Background color
Panel with #aa2cfb background
background-color: #aa2cfb;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #aa2cfb;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(170, 44, 251, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(170, 44, 251, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #aa2cfb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #aa2cfb, #FB2CC2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #aa2cfb, #FB2C8E);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #aa2cfb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #aa2cfb;
caret-color: #aa2cfb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #aa2cfb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5E6FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #aa2cfb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#aa2cfb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #aa2cfb 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(170, 44, 251, 0.5)
rgb(170 44 251 / 50%)
#aa2cfb80
hsl(277 96% 58% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #aa2cfb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#aa2cfb1a#F7EAFF
20%#aa2cfb33#EED5FE
40%#aa2cfb66#DDABFD
60%#aa2cfb99#CC80FD
80%#aa2cfbcc#BB56FC

Gradients from #aa2cfb

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, #C268FC, #aa2cfb 45%, #4D027D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #aa2cfb, #FA0EA6);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #aa2cfb, #7DFB2C);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CE86FD 0%, #aa2cfb 45%, #4D027D 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%, #625EFC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FC4ADA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4D027D 0%, transparent 65%), #aa2cfb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #aa2cfb

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.

#aa2cfb 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 4.46:1 — lift it to #AC31FB 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.

#aa2cfb, answered

What color is #aa2cfb?

#aa2cfb is a balanced electric violet, closest to Blue Violet (ΔE2000 6.6). It sits at 277° on the hue wheel with 96% saturation and 58% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #aa2cfb?

rgb(170, 44, 251) — 170 red, 44 green and 251 blue out of 255, or 66.7% / 17.3% / 98.4% by channel.

What is #aa2cfb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(277, 96%, 58%) and hsv(277, 82%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #aa2cfb a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1731 and perceived brightness is 51%, so white text on it reaches 4.71:1.

Should I use black or white text on #aa2cfb?

White. It scores 4.71:1 against #aa2cfb, versus 4.46:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #aa2cfb accessible on a white background?

#aa2cfb on white scores 4.71:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #aa2cfb?

#7DFB2C sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E5FB2C and #2CFB42, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #aa2cfb?

For interface work: #F8F4FA as the surface, #DBC0ED for borders, #7B4B9B for secondary text, #83CC00 as an accent and #4D027D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #422CFB and #FB2CE5 stays calm, while #7DFB2C is the loudest partner.

What is #aa2cfb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(32%, 83%, 0%, 2%). 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 #aa2cfb 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 #F62CFB; nudged cooler, #5D2AFD.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #aa2cfb?

The purple family — its 500 step is #a855f7, ΔE2000 6.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #aa2cfb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #aa2cfb in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#aa2cfb] or text-[#aa2cfb], 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 #aa2cfb with 50% opacity?

rgba(170, 44, 251, 0.5), or #aa2cfb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D596FD; over black, #55167E.

Is #aa2cfb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #9933FF, ΔE2000 2.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #aa2cfb 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 #aa2cfb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C268FC, #aa2cfb 45%, #4D027D). For more colour, a short hue run to #FA0EA6 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #aa2cfb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #aa2cfb at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.