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magenta / pink · neutral

#ba1eb9

a dark, vivid magenta / pink · neutral · closest name: Dark Orchid

Token name suggestion: Shadow Ruby

RGB
186, 30, 185
HSL
300°, 72%, 42%
CMYK
0, 84, 1, 27
Luminance
0.1487

#ba1eb9 is a dark vivid magenta / pink, 300° on the wheel and 50/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.28:1). As text it scores 5.28:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Orchid, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(300 72% 42%)rgb(186 30 185)Base step 700AA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ba1eb9 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ba1eb9
Hue
300°
magenta / pink
Saturation
72%
vivid
Lightness
42%
dark
Brightness
73%
HSV value
Perceived
48%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1487
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
50/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
5.28:1
Closest name
Dark Orchid
ΔE2000 7.2
Chroma
86.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.562
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 12.4
Web-safe
#CC33CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue300° of 360°
Saturation72%
Lightness42%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ba1eb9.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool50% 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
Red70%
Green6%
Blue24%

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

Every format

HEX#ba1eb9
HEX (8-digit)#ba1eb9ff
RGBrgb(186, 30, 185)
RGBArgba(186, 30, 185, 1)
HSLhsl(300, 72%, 42%)
HSV / HSBhsv(300, 84%, 73%)
HWBhwb(300 12% 27%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 84%, 1%, 27%)
LABlab(45.5 73.5 -45.4)
LCHlch(45.5 86.4 328.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.562 0.241 328.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(29.47, 14.87, 47.21)
Decimal12197561
Display P3color(display-p3 0.729 0.118 0.725)
Web-safe#CC33CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ba1eb9;
background-color: #ba1eb9;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ba1eb9;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ba1eb9] bg-[#ba1eb9]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ba1eb9;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.729, green: 0.118, blue: 0.725)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.729, green: 0.118, blue: 0.725, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BA1EB9</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBA1EB9)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBA1EB9)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(185, 30, 186)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(186, 30, 185)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(186, 30, 185)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 186, 30, 185)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7294f, 0.1176f, 0.7255f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{186,30,185}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ba1eb9 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ba1eb9 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#6E126D, #EED3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ba1eb9 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: #FCF3FC;
  --brand-100: #F8E7F8;
  --brand-200: #F3C9F3;
  --brand-300: #EF9EEF;
  --brand-400: #E86EE7;
  --brand-500: #E03EDF;
  --brand-600: #D322D2;
  --brand-700: #ba1eb9;
  --brand-800: #8D178C;
  --brand-900: #661565;
  --brand-950: #400D3F;
  --brand: #ba1eb9;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EDC0EC;
  --brand-hover: #9B199B;
  --brand-pressed: #7D147C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241424;
    --brand-ink: #EED3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF3FC',
        100: '#F8E7F8',
        200: '#F3C9F3',
        300: '#EF9EEF',
        400: '#E86EE7',
        500: '#E03EDF',
        600: '#D322D2',
        700: '#ba1eb9',
        800: '#8D178C',
        900: '#661565',
        950: '#400D3F',
        DEFAULT: '#ba1eb9',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF3FC,
  '100': #F8E7F8,
  '200': #F3C9F3,
  '300': #EF9EEF,
  '400': #E86EE7,
  '500': #E03EDF,
  '600': #D322D2,
  '700': #ba1eb9,
  '800': #8D178C,
  '900': #661565,
  '950': #400D3F,
);
$brand-base: #ba1eb9;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FCF3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F8E7F8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F3C9F3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#EF9EEF", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#E86EE7", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#E03EDF", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#D322D2", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#ba1eb9", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#8D178C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#661565", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#400D3F", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ba1eb9 · 5.28:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.28:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.97:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #ba1eb9 as text scores 5.28:1 on white and 3.97:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FBE9FB at 4.57:1.

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
#ba1eb9 · 5.28:1
AA on whitealready passes
#ba1eb9
The quick fox
#971896 · 7.27:1
AAA on white−8% L
#971896
The quick fox
#CC21CB · 4.65:1
AA on black+4% L
#CC21CB
The quick fox
#E55EE4 · 7.05:1
AAA on black+21% L
#E55EE4

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #BA1EB9 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
#ba1eb9 on white: 5.28:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ba1eb9 on black: 3.97:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ba1eb9 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ba1eb9.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.28:1AaAa
Slate 505.05:1AaAa
Slate 1004.82:1AaAa
Slate 2004.29:1AaAa
Slate 3003.56:1AaAa
Slate 4002.06:1AaAa
Slate 5001.11:1AaAa
Slate 6001.43:1AaAa
Slate 7001.96:1AaAa
Slate 8002.77:1AaAa
Slate 9003.38:1AaAa
Black3.97:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #005FBD
deuteranopia · #5072B5
tritanopia · #C03C6F

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. #ba1eb9 is pinned to step 700; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FCF3FC
#F8E7F8
#F3C9F3
#EF9EEF
#E86EE7
#E03EDF
#D322D2
#ba1eb9
#8D178C
#661565
#400D3F
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #FCF3FCDarkest = 950 · #400D3FText step on white = 700
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 0.060 328.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.097 328.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.145 328.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.188 328.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.222 328.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.241 328.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.241 328.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.227 328.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.203 328.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.169 328.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.133 328.5);
}

Colors that work with #ba1eb9

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#FAF4FA
Tinted page background
Border#EDC0EC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B9A
Captions on the surface
Accent#3EB418
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#6E126D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FBE9FB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241424
Dark-mode background
Hover#9B199B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7D147C
Two steps down
Disabled#B890B8
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D815D6
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 #ba1eb9

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
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • 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.

expressiveyouthfulwarmconfident

Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

Strong gendered associations in some markets — test it with the audience you actually have.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight58/100
  • 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#1EBA1F
Analogous left#6D1EBA
Analogous right#BA1E6B
Split-complement 1#6BBA1E
Split-complement 2#1EBA6D
Triadic 1#B9BA1E
Triadic 2#1EB9BA
Tetradic#BA6D1E
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°300°

#ba1eb9 sits at 300°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red72.9%
Green11.8%
Blue72.5%
R · 0–255
186
0xba
G · 0–255
30
0x1e
B · 0–255
185
0xb9

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta83.9%
Yellow0.5%
Key (black)27.1%

Total ink coverage is 112%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ba1eb9 text on a black background

contrast 3.97:1

Card sample

#ba1eb9 text on a white background

contrast 5.28:1

Card sample

#ba1eb9 on grey

4.82:1

#ba1eb9 on its own surface

4.88:1

#ba1eb9 on its dark surface

3.31:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ba1eb9;
Background color
Panel with #ba1eb9 background
background-color: #ba1eb9;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ba1eb9;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(186, 30, 185, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(186, 30, 185, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ba1eb9;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ba1eb9, #BA1E51);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ba1eb9, #BA1E2A);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ba1eb9;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ba1eb9;
caret-color: #ba1eb9;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ba1eb9;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FBE9FB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ba1eb9;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ba1eb9 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ba1eb9 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(186, 30, 185, 0.5)
rgb(186 30 185 / 50%)
#ba1eb980
hsl(300 72% 42% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ba1eb9 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ba1eb91a#F8E9F8
20%#ba1eb933#F1D2F1
40%#ba1eb966#E3A5E3
60%#ba1eb999#D678D5
80%#ba1eb9cc#C84BC7

Gradients from #ba1eb9

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, #DF37DE, #ba1eb9 45%, #6E126D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ba1eb9, #A01A3A);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ba1eb9, #1EBA1F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #E351E2 0%, #ba1eb9 45%, #6E126D 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAF4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #782EDD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D5226B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #6E126D 0%, transparent 65%), #ba1eb9;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ba1eb9

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.

#ba1eb9 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
BeautyFashionLifestyleYouth brands
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 3.97:1 — lift it to #CC21CB 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.

#ba1eb9, answered

What color is #ba1eb9?

#ba1eb9 is a dark vivid magenta / pink, closest to Dark Orchid (ΔE2000 7.2). It sits at 300° on the hue wheel with 72% saturation and 42% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #ba1eb9?

rgb(186, 30, 185) — 186 red, 30 green and 185 blue out of 255, or 72.9% / 11.8% / 72.5% by channel.

What is #ba1eb9 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(300, 72%, 42%) and hsv(300, 84%, 73%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ba1eb9 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1487 and perceived brightness is 48%, so white text on it reaches 5.28:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ba1eb9?

White. It scores 5.28:1 against #ba1eb9, versus 3.97:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #ba1eb9 accessible on a white background?

#ba1eb9 on white scores 5.28:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #ba1eb9?

#1EBA1F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #6BBA1E and #1EBA6D, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ba1eb9?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EDC0EC for borders, #9B4B9A for secondary text, #3EB418 as an accent and #6E126D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #6D1EBA and #BA1E6B stays calm, while #1EBA1F is the loudest partner.

What is #ba1eb9 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 84%, 1%, 27%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ba1eb9 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 50 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BA1E80; nudged cooler, #831CBC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ba1eb9?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 12.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ba1eb9 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ba1eb9 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ba1eb9] or text-[#ba1eb9], 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 #ba1eb9 with 50% opacity?

rgba(186, 30, 185, 0.5), or #ba1eb980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DD8FDC; over black, #5D0F5D.

Is #ba1eb9 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC33CC, ΔE2000 5.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ba1eb9 mean?

As a magenta / pink, it reads expressive, youthful, warm. Pink is the fastest way to signal that a product is not another enterprise dashboard. It carries beauty, fashion and culture brands. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #ba1eb9?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #DF37DE, #ba1eb9 45%, #6E126D). For more colour, a short hue run to #A01A3A keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ba1eb9 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ba1eb9 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.