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violet · cool

#af13eb

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

Token name suggestion: Atlas Plum

RGB
175, 19, 235
HSL
283°, 85%, 50%
CMYK
26, 92, 0, 8
Luminance
0.1558

#af13eb is a balanced electric violet, 283° on the wheel and 59/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.10:1). As text it scores 5.10:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Orchid, nearest Tailwind family is purple.

hsl(283 85% 50%)rgb(175 19 235)Base step 600AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #af13eb is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#af13eb
Hue
283°
violet
Saturation
85%
electric
Lightness
50%
balanced
Brightness
92%
HSV value
Perceived
49%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1558
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
59/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
5.10:1
Closest name
Dark Orchid
ΔE2000 4.8
Chroma
109.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.576
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
purple
500 · ΔE 8.8
Web-safe
#9900FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue283° of 360°
Saturation85%
Lightness50%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #af13eb.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool59% 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
Red59%
Green3%
Blue39%

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

Every format

HEX#af13eb
HEX (8-digit)#af13ebff
RGBrgb(175, 19, 235)
RGBArgba(175, 19, 235, 1)
HSLhsl(283, 85%, 50%)
HSV / HSBhsv(283, 92%, 92%)
HWBhwb(283 7% 8%)
CMYKcmyk(26%, 92%, 0%, 8%)
LABlab(46.4 82.0 -72.8)
LCHlch(46.4 109.7 318.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.576 0.280 312.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(32.90, 15.58, 79.85)
Decimal11473899
Display P3color(display-p3 0.686 0.075 0.922)
Web-safe#9900FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #af13eb;
background-color: #af13eb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #af13eb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#af13eb] bg-[#af13eb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #af13eb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.686, green: 0.075, blue: 0.922)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.686, green: 0.075, blue: 0.922, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#AF13EB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFAF13EB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFAF13EB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(235, 19, 175)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(175, 19, 235)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(175, 19, 235)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 175, 19, 235)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6863f, 0.0745f, 0.9216f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{175,19,235}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #af13eb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #af13eb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#580A76, #E7D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #af13eb 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: #FAF2FC;
  --brand-100: #F4E5FA;
  --brand-200: #E9C5F7;
  --brand-300: #DC97F7;
  --brand-400: #CB63F2;
  --brand-500: #B92FEE;
  --brand-600: #af13eb;
  --brand-700: #8C0FBD;
  --brand-800: #700C97;
  --brand-900: #520D6D;
  --brand-950: #340844;
  --brand: #af13eb;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F9F4FA;
  --brand-border: #E0C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #9610CA;
  --brand-pressed: #7E0EA9;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #201424;
    --brand-ink: #E7D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF2FC',
        100: '#F4E5FA',
        200: '#E9C5F7',
        300: '#DC97F7',
        400: '#CB63F2',
        500: '#B92FEE',
        600: '#af13eb',
        700: '#8C0FBD',
        800: '#700C97',
        900: '#520D6D',
        950: '#340844',
        DEFAULT: '#af13eb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF2FC,
  '100': #F4E5FA,
  '200': #E9C5F7,
  '300': #DC97F7,
  '400': #CB63F2,
  '500': #B92FEE,
  '600': #af13eb,
  '700': #8C0FBD,
  '800': #700C97,
  '900': #520D6D,
  '950': #340844,
);
$brand-base: #af13eb;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF2FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4E5FA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E9C5F7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DC97F7", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#CB63F2", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B92FEE", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#af13eb", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#8C0FBD", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#700C97", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#520D6D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#340844", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #af13eb · 5.10:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.10:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.12:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #af13eb as text scores 5.10:1 on white and 4.12:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F7E7FD at 4.33:1.

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
#af13eb · 5.10:1
AA on whitealready passes
#af13eb
The quick fox
#8C0FBC · 7.22:1
AAA on white−10% L
#8C0FBC
The quick fox
#B72AEE · 4.58:1
AA on black+5% L
#B72AEE
The quick fox
#CD6CF3 · 7.04:1
AAA on black+19% L
#CD6CF3

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #AF13EB 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
#af13eb on white: 5.10:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#af13eb on black: 4.12:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #af13eb as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #af13eb.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.10:1AaAa
Slate 504.88:1AaAa
Slate 1004.66:1AaAa
Slate 2004.14:1AaAa
Slate 3003.44:1AaAa
Slate 4001.99:1AaAa
Slate 5001.07:1AaAa
Slate 6001.49:1AaAa
Slate 7002.03:1AaAa
Slate 8002.87:1AaAa
Slate 9003.50:1AaAa
Black4.12:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0067F0
deuteranopia · #0071E7
tritanopia · #A8578B

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. #af13eb is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FAF2FC
#F4E5FA
#E9C5F7
#DC97F7
#CB63F2
#B92FEE
#af13eb
#8C0FBD
#700C97
#520D6D
#340844
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #FAF2FCDarkest = 950 · #340844Text 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 0.070 312.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.112 312.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.168 312.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.218 312.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.257 312.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.280 312.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.280 312.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.263 312.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.235 312.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.196 312.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.154 312.5);
}

Colors that work with #af13eb

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#F9F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#E0C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#854B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#6BC10B
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#580A76
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7E7FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#201424
Dark-mode background
Hover#9610CA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7E0EA9
Two steps down
Disabled#BEA7C7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#BB19F9
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #af13eb

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
  • Weight50/100
  • 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#4FEB13
Analogous left#4313EB
Analogous right#EB13BB
Split-complement 1#BBEB13
Split-complement 2#13EB43
Triadic 1#EBAF13
Triadic 2#13EBAF
Tetradic#EB4313
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°283°

#af13eb sits at 283°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red68.6%
Green7.5%
Blue92.2%
R · 0–255
175
0xaf
G · 0–255
19
0x13
B · 0–255
235
0xeb

CMYK percentages

Cyan25.5%
Magenta91.9%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)7.8%

Total ink coverage is 125%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#af13eb text on a black background

contrast 4.12:1

Card sample

#af13eb text on a white background

contrast 5.10:1

Card sample

#af13eb on grey

4.66:1

#af13eb on its own surface

4.70:1

#af13eb on its dark surface

3.47:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #af13eb;
Background color
Panel with #af13eb background
background-color: #af13eb;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #af13eb;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(175, 19, 235, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(175, 19, 235, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #af13eb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #af13eb, #EB1397);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #af13eb, #EB1361);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #af13eb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #af13eb;
caret-color: #af13eb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #af13eb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7E7FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #af13eb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#af13eb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #af13eb 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(175, 19, 235, 0.5)
rgb(175 19 235 / 50%)
#af13eb80
hsl(283 85% 50% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #af13eb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#af13eb1a#F7E7FD
20%#af13eb33#EFD0FB
40%#af13eb66#DFA1F7
60%#af13eb99#CF71F3
80%#af13ebcc#BF42EF

Gradients from #af13eb

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, #C24BF0, #af13eb 45%, #580A76);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #af13eb, #CF1175);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #af13eb, #4FEB13);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CC67F3 0%, #af13eb 45%, #580A76 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #5941F0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #EE2EB4 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #580A76 0%, transparent 65%), #af13eb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #af13eb

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.

#af13eb 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 4.12:1 — lift it to #B72AEE 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.

#af13eb, answered

What color is #af13eb?

#af13eb is a balanced electric violet, closest to Dark Orchid (ΔE2000 4.8). It sits at 283° on the hue wheel with 85% saturation and 50% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #af13eb?

rgb(175, 19, 235) — 175 red, 19 green and 235 blue out of 255, or 68.6% / 7.5% / 92.2% by channel.

What is #af13eb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(283, 85%, 50%) and hsv(283, 92%, 92%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #af13eb a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1558 and perceived brightness is 49%, so white text on it reaches 5.10:1.

Should I use black or white text on #af13eb?

White. It scores 5.10:1 against #af13eb, versus 4.12:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #af13eb accessible on a white background?

#af13eb on white scores 5.10:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #af13eb?

#4FEB13 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #BBEB13 and #13EB43, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #af13eb?

For interface work: #F9F4FA as the surface, #E0C0ED for borders, #854B9B for secondary text, #6BC10B as an accent and #580A76 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #4313EB and #EB13BB stays calm, while #4FEB13 is the loudest partner.

What is #af13eb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(26%, 92%, 0%, 8%). 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 #af13eb warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 59 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #EB13D8; nudged cooler, #5F11ED.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #af13eb?

The purple family — its 500 step is #a855f7, ΔE2000 8.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #af13eb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #af13eb in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#af13eb] or text-[#af13eb], 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 #af13eb with 50% opacity?

rgba(175, 19, 235, 0.5), or #af13eb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D789F5; over black, #580A76.

Is #af13eb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #9900FF, ΔE2000 4.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #af13eb 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 #af13eb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C24BF0, #af13eb 45%, #580A76). For more colour, a short hue run to #CF1175 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #af13eb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #af13eb at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.