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magenta / pink · neutral

#bf1bbc

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

Token name suggestion: Dusk Peony

RGB
191, 27, 188
HSL
301°, 75%, 43%
CMYK
0, 86, 2, 25
Luminance
0.1549

#bf1bbc is a dark electric magenta / pink, 301° on the wheel and 49/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.12:1). As text it scores 5.12:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Orchid, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(301 75% 43%)rgb(191 27 188)Base step 700AA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #bf1bbc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#bf1bbc
Hue
301°
magenta / pink
Saturation
75%
electric
Lightness
43%
dark
Brightness
75%
HSV value
Perceived
49%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1549
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
49/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
5.12:1
Closest name
Dark Orchid
ΔE2000 7.7
Chroma
88.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.570
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 11.6
Web-safe
#CC33CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue301° of 360°
Saturation75%
Lightness43%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #bf1bbc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool49% 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
Red72%
Green5%
Blue23%

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

Every format

HEX#bf1bbc
HEX (8-digit)#bf1bbcff
RGBrgb(191, 27, 188)
RGBArgba(191, 27, 188, 1)
HSLhsl(301, 75%, 43%)
HSV / HSBhsv(301, 86%, 75%)
HWBhwb(301 11% 25%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 86%, 2%, 25%)
LABlab(46.3 75.5 -45.8)
LCHlch(46.3 88.3 328.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.570 0.247 329.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(30.95, 15.49, 48.93)
Decimal12524476
Display P3color(display-p3 0.749 0.106 0.737)
Web-safe#CC33CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #bf1bbc;
background-color: #bf1bbc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #bf1bbc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#bf1bbc] bg-[#bf1bbc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #bf1bbc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.749, green: 0.106, blue: 0.737)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.749, green: 0.106, blue: 0.737, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BF1BBC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBF1BBC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBF1BBC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(188, 27, 191)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(191, 27, 188)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(191, 27, 188)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 191, 27, 188)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7490f, 0.1059f, 0.7373f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{191,27,188}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #bf1bbc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #bf1bbc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#70106E, #EED3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #bf1bbc 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: #F9E7F8;
  --brand-200: #F4C8F3;
  --brand-300: #F19DF0;
  --brand-400: #EA6CE8;
  --brand-500: #E33AE0;
  --brand-600: #D61ED3;
  --brand-700: #bf1bbc;
  --brand-800: #8F148D;
  --brand-900: #681366;
  --brand-950: #410C40;
  --brand: #bf1bbc;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EDC0EC;
  --brand-hover: #9F179D;
  --brand-pressed: #80127E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241424;
    --brand-ink: #EED3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FCF3FC',
        100: '#F9E7F8',
        200: '#F4C8F3',
        300: '#F19DF0',
        400: '#EA6CE8',
        500: '#E33AE0',
        600: '#D61ED3',
        700: '#bf1bbc',
        800: '#8F148D',
        900: '#681366',
        950: '#410C40',
        DEFAULT: '#bf1bbc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FCF3FC,
  '100': #F9E7F8,
  '200': #F4C8F3,
  '300': #F19DF0,
  '400': #EA6CE8,
  '500': #E33AE0,
  '600': #D61ED3,
  '700': #bf1bbc,
  '800': #8F148D,
  '900': #681366,
  '950': #410C40,
);
$brand-base: #bf1bbc;
$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": "#F9E7F8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F4C8F3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F19DF0", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#EA6CE8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#E33AE0", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#D61ED3", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#bf1bbc", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#8F148D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#681366", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#410C40", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #bf1bbc · 5.12:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.12:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.10:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #bf1bbc as text scores 5.12:1 on white and 4.10:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FCE9FB at 4.44:1.

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
#bf1bbc · 5.12:1
AA on whitealready passes
#bf1bbc
The quick fox
#9B1699 · 7.07:1
AAA on white−8% L
#9B1699
The quick fox
#CC1DC9 · 4.59:1
AA on black+3% L
#CC1DC9
The quick fox
#E85DE5 · 7.13:1
AAA on black+21% L
#E85DE5

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #BF1BBC 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
#bf1bbc on white: 5.12:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#bf1bbc on black: 4.10:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #bf1bbc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #bf1bbc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.12:1AaAa
Slate 504.90:1AaAa
Slate 1004.68:1AaAa
Slate 2004.16:1AaAa
Slate 3003.45:1AaAa
Slate 4002.00:1AaAa
Slate 5001.08:1AaAa
Slate 6001.48:1AaAa
Slate 7002.02:1AaAa
Slate 8002.85:1AaAa
Slate 9003.48:1AaAa
Black4.10:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0060C0
deuteranopia · #5375B8
tritanopia · #C63B70

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. #bf1bbc 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
#F9E7F8
#F4C8F3
#F19DF0
#EA6CE8
#E33AE0
#D61ED3
#bf1bbc
#8F148D
#681366
#410C40
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #FCF3FCDarkest = 950 · #410C40Text 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 0.062 329.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.099 329.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.148 329.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.193 329.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.228 329.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.247 329.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.247 329.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.232 329.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.208 329.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.173 329.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.136 329.1);
}

Colors that work with #bf1bbc

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#9B4B99
Captions on the surface
Accent#3BB616
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#70106E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FCE9FB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241424
Dark-mode background
Hover#9F179D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#80127E
Two steps down
Disabled#B991B8
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DD12D9
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 #bf1bbc

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.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. 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
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight57/100
  • 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#1BBF1E
Analogous left#701BBF
Analogous right#BF1B6A
Split-complement 1#6ABF1B
Split-complement 2#1BBF70
Triadic 1#BCBF1B
Triadic 2#1BBCBF
Tetradic#BF701B
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°301°

#bf1bbc sits at 301°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red74.9%
Green10.6%
Blue73.7%
R · 0–255
191
0xbf
G · 0–255
27
0x1b
B · 0–255
188
0xbc

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta85.9%
Yellow1.6%
Key (black)25.1%

Total ink coverage is 113%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#bf1bbc text on a black background

contrast 4.10:1

Card sample

#bf1bbc text on a white background

contrast 5.12:1

Card sample

#bf1bbc on grey

4.68:1

#bf1bbc on its own surface

4.73:1

#bf1bbc on its dark surface

3.41:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #bf1bbc;
Background color
Panel with #bf1bbc background
background-color: #bf1bbc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #bf1bbc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(191, 27, 188, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(191, 27, 188, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #bf1bbc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #bf1bbc, #BF1B4F);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bf1bbc, #BF1B26);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #bf1bbc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #bf1bbc;
caret-color: #bf1bbc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #bf1bbc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FCE9FB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #bf1bbc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#bf1bbc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #bf1bbc 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(191, 27, 188, 0.5)
rgb(191 27 188 / 50%)
#bf1bbc80
hsl(301 75% 43% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #bf1bbc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#bf1bbc1a#F9E8F8
20%#bf1bbc33#F2D1F2
40%#bf1bbc66#E5A4E4
60%#bf1bbc99#D976D7
80%#bf1bbccc#CC49C9

Gradients from #bf1bbc

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, #E235DF, #bf1bbc 45%, #70106E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #bf1bbc, #A41738);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bf1bbc, #1BBF1E);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #E64FE3 0%, #bf1bbc 45%, #70106E 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%, #7B2CE1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DA1F69 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #70106E 0%, transparent 65%), #bf1bbc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #bf1bbc

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.

#bf1bbc 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

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 4.10:1 — lift it to #CC1DC9 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.

#bf1bbc, answered

What color is #bf1bbc?

#bf1bbc is a dark electric magenta / pink, closest to Dark Orchid (ΔE2000 7.7). It sits at 301° on the hue wheel with 75% saturation and 43% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #bf1bbc?

rgb(191, 27, 188) — 191 red, 27 green and 188 blue out of 255, or 74.9% / 10.6% / 73.7% by channel.

What is #bf1bbc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(301, 75%, 43%) and hsv(301, 86%, 75%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #bf1bbc a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1549 and perceived brightness is 49%, so white text on it reaches 5.12:1.

Should I use black or white text on #bf1bbc?

White. It scores 5.12:1 against #bf1bbc, versus 4.10:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #bf1bbc accessible on a white background?

#bf1bbc on white scores 5.12:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #bf1bbc?

#1BBF1E sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #6ABF1B and #1BBF70, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #bf1bbc?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EDC0EC for borders, #9B4B99 for secondary text, #3BB616 as an accent and #70106E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #701BBF and #BF1B6A stays calm, while #1BBF1E is the loudest partner.

What is #bf1bbc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 86%, 2%, 25%). 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 #bf1bbc warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 49 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BF1B80; nudged cooler, #8619C1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #bf1bbc?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 11.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #bf1bbc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #bf1bbc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#bf1bbc] or text-[#bf1bbc], 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 #bf1bbc with 50% opacity?

rgba(191, 27, 188, 0.5), or #bf1bbc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DF8DDE; over black, #600E5E.

Is #bf1bbc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC33CC, ΔE2000 5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #bf1bbc 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 #bf1bbc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #E235DF, #bf1bbc 45%, #70106E). For more colour, a short hue run to #A41738 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #bf1bbc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #bf1bbc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.