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violet · neutral

#af1fd7

a balanced, vivid violet · neutral · closest name: Dark Orchid

Token name suggestion: Atlas Plum

RGB
175, 31, 215
HSL
287°, 75%, 48%
CMYK
19, 86, 0, 16
Luminance
0.1500

#af1fd7 is a balanced vivid violet, 287° on the wheel and 57/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.25:1). As text it scores 5.25:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Orchid, nearest Tailwind family is purple.

hsl(287 75% 48%)rgb(175 31 215)Base step 600AA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #af1fd7 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#af1fd7
Hue
287°
violet
Saturation
75%
vivid
Lightness
48%
balanced
Brightness
84%
HSV value
Perceived
48%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1500
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
57/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
5.25:1
Closest name
Dark Orchid
ΔE2000 3.6
Chroma
98.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.566
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
purple
500 · ΔE 9.8
Web-safe
#9933CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue287° of 360°
Saturation75%
Lightness48%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #af1fd7.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool57% cool

Reads neutral. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red61%
Green7%
Blue33%

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

Every format

HEX#af1fd7
HEX (8-digit)#af1fd7ff
RGBrgb(175, 31, 215)
RGBArgba(175, 31, 215, 1)
HSLhsl(287, 75%, 48%)
HSV / HSBhsv(287, 86%, 84%)
HWBhwb(287 12% 16%)
CMYKcmyk(19%, 86%, 0%, 16%)
LABlab(45.6 76.4 -62.6)
LCHlch(45.6 98.8 320.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.566 0.259 316.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(30.43, 15.00, 65.57)
Decimal11476951
Display P3color(display-p3 0.686 0.122 0.843)
Web-safe#9933CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #af1fd7;
background-color: #af1fd7;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #af1fd7;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#af1fd7] bg-[#af1fd7]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #af1fd7;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.686, green: 0.122, blue: 0.843)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.686, green: 0.122, blue: 0.843, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#AF1FD7</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFAF1FD7)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFAF1FD7)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(215, 31, 175)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(175, 31, 215)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(175, 31, 215)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 175, 31, 215)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6863f, 0.1216f, 0.8431f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{175,31,215}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #af1fd7 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #af1fd7 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#5B106F, #E8D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #af1fd7 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: #FAF3FC;
  --brand-100: #F5E7F9;
  --brand-200: #EAC8F4;
  --brand-300: #DF9DF1;
  --brand-400: #CF6CEA;
  --brand-500: #BE3BE3;
  --brand-600: #af1fd7;
  --brand-700: #911AB2;
  --brand-800: #74158F;
  --brand-900: #551367;
  --brand-950: #350C41;
  --brand: #af1fd7;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F9F4FA;
  --brand-border: #E3C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #961AB8;
  --brand-pressed: #7C1698;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #211424;
    --brand-ink: #E8D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF3FC',
        100: '#F5E7F9',
        200: '#EAC8F4',
        300: '#DF9DF1',
        400: '#CF6CEA',
        500: '#BE3BE3',
        600: '#af1fd7',
        700: '#911AB2',
        800: '#74158F',
        900: '#551367',
        950: '#350C41',
        DEFAULT: '#af1fd7',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF3FC,
  '100': #F5E7F9,
  '200': #EAC8F4,
  '300': #DF9DF1,
  '400': #CF6CEA,
  '500': #BE3BE3,
  '600': #af1fd7,
  '700': #911AB2,
  '800': #74158F,
  '900': #551367,
  '950': #350C41,
);
$brand-base: #af1fd7;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F5E7F9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EAC8F4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DF9DF1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#CF6CEA", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#BE3BE3", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#af1fd7", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#911AB2", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#74158F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#551367", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#350C41", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #af1fd7 · 5.25:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.25:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.00:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #af1fd7 as text scores 5.25:1 on white and 4.00:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F8E9FC at 4.51:1.

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
#af1fd7 · 5.25:1
AA on whitealready passes
#af1fd7
The quick fox
#8E19AF · 7.22:1
AAA on white−9% L
#8E19AF
The quick fox
#BA2EE1 · 4.57:1
AA on black+5% L
#BA2EE1
The quick fox
#CF6DEA · 7.03:1
AAA on black+19% L
#CF6DEA

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #AF1FD7 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
#af1fd7 on white: 5.25:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#af1fd7 on black: 4.00:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #af1fd7 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #af1fd7.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.25:1AaAa
Slate 505.02:1AaAa
Slate 1004.79:1AaAa
Slate 2004.26:1AaAa
Slate 3003.54:1AaAa
Slate 4002.05:1AaAa
Slate 5001.10:1AaAa
Slate 6001.44:1AaAa
Slate 7001.97:1AaAa
Slate 8002.79:1AaAa
Slate 9003.40:1AaAa
Black4.00:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0064DC
deuteranopia · #2070D3
tritanopia · #AD5081

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. #af1fd7 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.

#FAF3FC
#F5E7F9
#EAC8F4
#DF9DF1
#CF6CEA
#BE3BE3
#af1fd7
#911AB2
#74158F
#551367
#350C41
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #FAF3FCDarkest = 950 · #350C41Text 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 0.065 316.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.104 316.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.155 316.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.202 316.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.238 316.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.259 316.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.259 316.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.243 316.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.217 316.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.181 316.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.142 316.9);
}

Colors that work with #af1fd7

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#E3C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8A4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#60B616
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#5B106F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F8E9FC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#211424
Dark-mode background
Hover#961AB8
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7C1698
Two steps down
Disabled#BCA2C4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#C01EEC
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 #af1fd7

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight52/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • 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#47D71F
Analogous left#531FD7
Analogous right#D71FA3
Split-complement 1#A3D71F
Split-complement 2#1FD753
Triadic 1#D7AF1F
Triadic 2#1FD7AF
Tetradic#D7531F
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°287°

#af1fd7 sits at 287°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red68.6%
Green12.2%
Blue84.3%
R · 0–255
175
0xaf
G · 0–255
31
0x1f
B · 0–255
215
0xd7

CMYK percentages

Cyan18.6%
Magenta85.6%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)15.7%

Total ink coverage is 120%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#af1fd7 text on a black background

contrast 4.00:1

Card sample

#af1fd7 text on a white background

contrast 5.25:1

Card sample

#af1fd7 on grey

4.79:1

#af1fd7 on its own surface

4.84:1

#af1fd7 on its dark surface

3.36:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #af1fd7;
Background color
Panel with #af1fd7 background
background-color: #af1fd7;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #af1fd7;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(175, 31, 215, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(175, 31, 215, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #af1fd7;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #af1fd7, #D71F84);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #af1fd7, #D71F56);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #af1fd7;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #af1fd7;
caret-color: #af1fd7;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #af1fd7;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F8E9FC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #af1fd7;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#af1fd7 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #af1fd7 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, 31, 215, 0.5)
rgb(175 31 215 / 50%)
#af1fd780
hsl(287 75% 48% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #af1fd7 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#af1fd71a#F7E9FB
20%#af1fd733#EFD2F7
40%#af1fd766#DFA5EF
60%#af1fd799#CF79E7
80%#af1fd7cc#BF4CDF

Gradients from #af1fd7

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, #C54EE5, #af1fd7 45%, #5B106F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #af1fd7, #BC1B66);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #af1fd7, #47D71F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CD68E9 0%, #af1fd7 45%, #5B106F 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%, #6545E4 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E233A2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #5B106F 0%, transparent 65%), #af1fd7;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #af1fd7

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.

#af1fd7 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

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

Too dim on dark surfaces at 4.00:1 — lift it to #BA2EE1 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.

#af1fd7, answered

What color is #af1fd7?

#af1fd7 is a balanced vivid violet, closest to Dark Orchid (ΔE2000 3.6). It sits at 287° on the hue wheel with 75% saturation and 48% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #af1fd7?

rgb(175, 31, 215) — 175 red, 31 green and 215 blue out of 255, or 68.6% / 12.2% / 84.3% by channel.

What is #af1fd7 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(287, 75%, 48%) and hsv(287, 86%, 84%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #af1fd7 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1500 and perceived brightness is 48%, so white text on it reaches 5.25:1.

Should I use black or white text on #af1fd7?

White. It scores 5.25:1 against #af1fd7, versus 4.00:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #af1fd7 accessible on a white background?

#af1fd7 on white scores 5.25:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #af1fd7?

#47D71F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #A3D71F and #1FD753, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #af1fd7?

For interface work: #F9F4FA as the surface, #E3C0ED for borders, #8A4B9B for secondary text, #60B616 as an accent and #5B106F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #531FD7 and #D71FA3 stays calm, while #47D71F is the loudest partner.

What is #af1fd7 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(19%, 86%, 0%, 16%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #af1fd7 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 57 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D71FBB; nudged cooler, #6B1DD9.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #af1fd7?

The purple family — its 500 step is #a855f7, ΔE2000 9.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #af1fd7 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #af1fd7 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#af1fd7] or text-[#af1fd7], 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 #af1fd7 with 50% opacity?

rgba(175, 31, 215, 0.5), or #af1fd780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D78FEB; over black, #58106C.

Is #af1fd7 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #9933CC, ΔE2000 3.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #af1fd7 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 #af1fd7?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C54EE5, #af1fd7 45%, #5B106F). For more colour, a short hue run to #BC1B66 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #af1fd7 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #af1fd7 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.