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violet · cool

#ad92ee

a light, vivid violet · cool · closest name: Medium Purple

Token name suggestion: Drift Thistle

RGB
173, 146, 238
HSL
258°, 73%, 75%
CMYK
27, 39, 0, 7
Luminance
0.3562

#ad92ee is a light vivid violet, 258° on the wheel and 74/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (8.12:1). As text it scores 2.59:1 on white — use #8259E5 instead. Nearest name is Medium Purple, nearest Tailwind family is purple.

hsl(258 73% 75%)rgb(173 146 238)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ad92ee is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ad92ee
Hue
258°
violet
Saturation
73%
vivid
Lightness
75%
light
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
66%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3562
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
74/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
8.12:1
Closest name
Medium Purple
ΔE2000 10.2
Chroma
51.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.720
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
purple
500 · ΔE 15.2
Web-safe
#9999FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue258° of 360°
Saturation73%
Lightness75%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ad92ee.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool74% 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
Red25%
Green58%
Blue17%

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

Every format

HEX#ad92ee
HEX (8-digit)#ad92eeff
RGBrgb(173, 146, 238)
RGBArgba(173, 146, 238, 1)
HSLhsl(258, 73%, 75%)
HSV / HSBhsv(258, 39%, 93%)
HWBhwb(258 57% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(27%, 39%, 0%, 7%)
LABlab(66.2 29.3 -42.7)
LCHlch(66.2 51.8 304.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.720 0.133 296.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(42.94, 35.61, 85.48)
Decimal11375342
Display P3color(display-p3 0.678 0.573 0.933)
Web-safe#9999FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ad92ee;
background-color: #ad92ee;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ad92ee;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ad92ee] bg-[#ad92ee]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ad92ee;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.678, green: 0.573, blue: 0.933)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.678, green: 0.573, blue: 0.933, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#AD92EE</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFAD92EE)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFAD92EE)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(238, 146, 173)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(173, 146, 238)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(173, 146, 238)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 173, 146, 238)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6784f, 0.5725f, 0.9333f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{173,146,238}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ad92ee 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ad92ee 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#2D116E, #DBD3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ad92ee 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: #F6F3FC;
  --brand-100: #ECE7F8;
  --brand-200: #D5C9F3;
  --brand-300: #ad92ee;
  --brand-400: #916DE8;
  --brand-500: #6D3DE1;
  --brand-600: #5521D4;
  --brand-700: #471CB0;
  --brand-800: #39168D;
  --brand-900: #2C1466;
  --brand-950: #1C0D40;
  --brand: #ad92ee;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6F4FA;
  --brand-border: #CDC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #9673E9;
  --brand-pressed: #7F54E4;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #191424;
    --brand-ink: #DBD3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F6F3FC',
        100: '#ECE7F8',
        200: '#D5C9F3',
        300: '#ad92ee',
        400: '#916DE8',
        500: '#6D3DE1',
        600: '#5521D4',
        700: '#471CB0',
        800: '#39168D',
        900: '#2C1466',
        950: '#1C0D40',
        DEFAULT: '#ad92ee',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F6F3FC,
  '100': #ECE7F8,
  '200': #D5C9F3,
  '300': #ad92ee,
  '400': #916DE8,
  '500': #6D3DE1,
  '600': #5521D4,
  '700': #471CB0,
  '800': #39168D,
  '900': #2C1466,
  '950': #1C0D40,
);
$brand-base: #ad92ee;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F6F3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#ECE7F8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D5C9F3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ad92ee", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#916DE8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#6D3DE1", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#5521D4", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#471CB0", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#39168D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#2C1466", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1C0D40", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ad92ee · 8.12:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.59:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 8.12:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ad92ee as text scores 2.59:1 on white and 8.12:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #2D116E at 5.73:1.

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
#8259E5 · 4.66:1
AA on white−13% L
#8259E5
The quick fox
#612DDE · 7.15:1
AAA on white−23% L
#612DDE
The quick fox
#ad92ee · 8.12:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ad92ee
The quick fox
#ad92ee · 8.12:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ad92ee

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #A080EB 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
#ad92ee on white: 2.59:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ad92ee on black: 8.12:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ad92ee as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ad92ee.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.59:1AaAa
Slate 502.47:1AaAa
Slate 1002.36:1AaAa
Slate 2002.10:1AaAa
Slate 3001.74:1AaAa
Slate 4001.01:1AaAa
Slate 5001.84:1AaAa
Slate 6002.93:1AaAa
Slate 7004.01:1AaAa
Slate 8005.66:1AaAa
Slate 9006.91:1AaAa
Black8.12:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #79A1F2
deuteranopia · #7DA0EC
tritanopia · #A0A2B5

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. #ad92ee is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F6F3FC
#ECE7F8
#D5C9F3
#ad92ee
#916DE8
#6D3DE1
#5521D4
#471CB0
#39168D
#2C1466
#1C0D40
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F6F3FCDarkest = 950 · #1C0D40Text 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 0.033 296.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.053 296.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.080 296.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.104 296.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.122 296.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.133 296.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.133 296.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.125 296.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.112 296.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.093 296.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.073 296.4);
}

Colors that work with #ad92ee

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#F6F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#CDC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#624B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#ADB517
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#2D116E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EEE9FC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#191424
Dark-mode background
Hover#9673E9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7F54E4
Two steps down
Disabled#F4F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B89EF6
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 #ad92ee

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • White text placed on it
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #2D116E
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #A080EB

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight25/100
  • 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#D3EE92
Analogous left#92A5EE
Analogous right#DB92EE
Split-complement 1#EEDB92
Split-complement 2#A5EE92
Triadic 1#EEAD92
Triadic 2#92EEAD
Tetradic#EE92A5
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°258°

#ad92ee sits at 258°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.8%
Green57.3%
Blue93.3%
R · 0–255
173
0xad
G · 0–255
146
0x92
B · 0–255
238
0xee

CMYK percentages

Cyan27.3%
Magenta38.7%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)6.7%

Total ink coverage is 73%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ad92ee text on a black background

contrast 8.12:1

Card sample

#ad92ee text on a white background

contrast 2.59:1

Card sample

#ad92ee on grey

2.36:1

#ad92ee on its own surface

2.37:1

#ad92ee on its dark surface

6.96:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ad92ee;
Background color
Panel with #ad92ee background
background-color: #ad92ee;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ad92ee;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(173, 146, 238, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(173, 146, 238, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ad92ee;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ad92ee, #EA92EE);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ad92ee, #EE92DB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ad92ee;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ad92ee;
caret-color: #ad92ee;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ad92ee;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EEE9FC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ad92ee;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ad92ee 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ad92ee 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(173, 146, 238, 0.5)
rgb(173 146 238 / 50%)
#ad92ee80
hsl(258 73% 75% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ad92ee 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ad92ee1a#F7F4FD
20%#ad92ee33#EFE9FC
40%#ad92ee66#DED3F8
60%#ad92ee99#CEBEF5
80%#ad92eecc#BDA8F1

Gradients from #ad92ee

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, #D5C7F6, #ad92ee 45%, #2D116E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ad92ee, #EA78E5);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ad92ee, #D3EE92);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #E9E1FA 0%, #ad92ee 45%, #2D116E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #BECEF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #EAADF2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #2D116E 0%, transparent 65%), #ad92ee;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ad92ee

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.

#ad92ee 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
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 8.12:1.

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.

#ad92ee, answered

What color is #ad92ee?

#ad92ee is a light vivid violet, closest to Medium Purple (ΔE2000 10.2). It sits at 258° on the hue wheel with 73% saturation and 75% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #ad92ee?

rgb(173, 146, 238) — 173 red, 146 green and 238 blue out of 255, or 67.8% / 57.3% / 93.3% by channel.

What is #ad92ee in HSL and HSV?

hsl(258, 73%, 75%) and hsv(258, 39%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ad92ee a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3562 and perceived brightness is 66%, so black text on it reaches 8.12:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ad92ee?

Black. It scores 8.12:1 against #ad92ee, versus 2.59:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ad92ee accessible on a white background?

#ad92ee on white scores 2.59:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #8259E5 to reach 4.5:1, or #612DDE for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ad92ee?

#D3EE92 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EEDB92 and #A5EE92, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ad92ee?

For interface work: #F6F4FA as the surface, #CDC0ED for borders, #624B9B for secondary text, #ADB517 as an accent and #2D116E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #92A5EE and #DB92EE stays calm, while #D3EE92 is the loudest partner.

What is #ad92ee in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(27%, 39%, 0%, 7%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ad92ee warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 74 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #CF92EE; nudged cooler, #9198EF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ad92ee?

The purple family — its 500 step is #a855f7, ΔE2000 15.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ad92ee as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ad92ee in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ad92ee] or text-[#ad92ee], 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 #ad92ee with 50% opacity?

rgba(173, 146, 238, 0.5), or #ad92ee80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D6C9F7; over black, #574977.

Is #ad92ee a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #9999FF, ΔE2000 6.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ad92ee 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 #ad92ee?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #D5C7F6, #ad92ee 45%, #2D116E). For more colour, a short hue run to #EA78E5 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ad92ee in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ad92ee at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.