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violet · cool

#d2c4f6

a pale, vivid violet · cool · closest name: Thistle

Token name suggestion: Chalk Iris

RGB
210, 196, 246
HSL
257°, 74%, 87%
CMYK
15, 20, 0, 4
Luminance
0.5984

#d2c4f6 is a pale vivid violet, 257° on the wheel and 74/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (12.97:1). As text it scores 1.62:1 on white — use #815AE6 instead. Nearest name is Thistle, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(257 74% 87%)rgb(210 196 246)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d2c4f6 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d2c4f6
Hue
257°
violet
Saturation
74%
vivid
Lightness
87%
pale
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
81%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5984
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
74/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
12.97:1
Closest name
Thistle
ΔE2000 8.5
Chroma
27.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.848
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 27.7
Web-safe
#CCCCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue257° of 360°
Saturation74%
Lightness87%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d2c4f6.

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
Red23%
Green66%
Blue11%

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

Every format

HEX#d2c4f6
HEX (8-digit)#d2c4f6ff
RGBrgb(210, 196, 246)
RGBArgba(210, 196, 246, 1)
HSLhsl(257, 74%, 87%)
HSV / HSBhsv(257, 20%, 96%)
HWBhwb(257 77% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(15%, 20%, 0%, 4%)
LABlab(81.8 14.5 -22.9)
LCHlch(81.8 27.1 302.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.848 0.070 297.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(62.95, 59.84, 95.40)
Decimal13812982
Display P3color(display-p3 0.824 0.769 0.965)
Web-safe#CCCCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d2c4f6;
background-color: #d2c4f6;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d2c4f6;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d2c4f6] bg-[#d2c4f6]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d2c4f6;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.824, green: 0.769, blue: 0.965)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.824, green: 0.769, blue: 0.965, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D2C4F6</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD2C4F6)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD2C4F6)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(246, 196, 210)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(210, 196, 246)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(210, 196, 246)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 210, 196, 246)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8235f, 0.7686f, 0.9647f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{210,196,246}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d2c4f6 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d2c4f6 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#2B116F, #DAD3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d2c4f6 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: #F5F3FC;
  --brand-100: #ECE7F8;
  --brand-200: #d2c4f6;
  --brand-300: #B59EF0;
  --brand-400: #906DE9;
  --brand-500: #6B3CE1;
  --brand-600: #5320D4;
  --brand-700: #451BB1;
  --brand-800: #37168E;
  --brand-900: #2B1467;
  --brand-950: #1B0C40;
  --brand: #d2c4f6;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6F4FA;
  --brand-border: #CCC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #BAA5F1;
  --brand-pressed: #A386ED;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #181424;
    --brand-ink: #DAD3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5F3FC',
        100: '#ECE7F8',
        200: '#d2c4f6',
        300: '#B59EF0',
        400: '#906DE9',
        500: '#6B3CE1',
        600: '#5320D4',
        700: '#451BB1',
        800: '#37168E',
        900: '#2B1467',
        950: '#1B0C40',
        DEFAULT: '#d2c4f6',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5F3FC,
  '100': #ECE7F8,
  '200': #d2c4f6,
  '300': #B59EF0,
  '400': #906DE9,
  '500': #6B3CE1,
  '600': #5320D4,
  '700': #451BB1,
  '800': #37168E,
  '900': #2B1467,
  '950': #1B0C40,
);
$brand-base: #d2c4f6;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5F3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#ECE7F8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#d2c4f6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B59EF0", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#906DE9", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#6B3CE1", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#5320D4", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#451BB1", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#37168E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#2B1467", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1B0C40", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #d2c4f6 · 12.97:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.62:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 12.97:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d2c4f6 as text scores 1.62:1 on white and 12.97:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #2B116F at 9.18:1.

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
#815AE6 · 4.63:1
AA on white−24% L
#815AE6
The quick fox
#5F2EDF · 7.14:1
AAA on white−34% L
#5F2EDF
The quick fox
#d2c4f6 · 12.97:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d2c4f6
The quick fox
#d2c4f6 · 12.97:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d2c4f6

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #9F82EC 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
#d2c4f6 on white: 1.62:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d2c4f6 on black: 12.97:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d2c4f6 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d2c4f6.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.62:1AaAa
Slate 501.55:1AaAa
Slate 1001.48:1AaAa
Slate 2001.31:1AaAa
Slate 3001.09:1AaAa
Slate 4001.58:1AaAa
Slate 5002.94:1AaAa
Slate 6004.68:1AaAa
Slate 7006.39:1AaAa
Slate 8009.03:1AaAa
Slate 90011.02:1AaAa
Black12.97:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #BACBF8
deuteranopia · #BCCBF5
tritanopia · #CCCBD5

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. #d2c4f6 is pinned to step 200; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F5F3FC
#ECE7F8
#d2c4f6
#B59EF0
#906DE9
#6B3CE1
#5320D4
#451BB1
#37168E
#2B1467
#1B0C40
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F5F3FCDarkest = 950 · #1B0C40Text 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 0.018 297.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.028 297.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.042 297.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.055 297.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.065 297.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.070 297.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.070 297.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.066 297.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.059 297.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.049 297.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.039 297.7);
}

Colors that work with #d2c4f6

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#CCC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#614B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#B1B418
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#2B116F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EEE9FC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#181424
Dark-mode background
Hover#BAA5F1
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A386ED
Two steps down
Disabled#F4F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DFD3FB
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 #d2c4f6

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 #2B116F
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #9F82EC

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 high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight13/100
  • 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#E8F6C4
Analogous left#C4CFF6
Analogous right#EBC4F6
Split-complement 1#F6EBC4
Split-complement 2#CFF6C4
Triadic 1#F6D2C4
Triadic 2#C4F6D2
Tetradic#F6C4CF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°257°

#d2c4f6 sits at 257°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red82.4%
Green76.9%
Blue96.5%
R · 0–255
210
0xd2
G · 0–255
196
0xc4
B · 0–255
246
0xf6

CMYK percentages

Cyan14.6%
Magenta20.3%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)3.5%

Total ink coverage is 38%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d2c4f6 text on a black background

contrast 12.97:1

Card sample

#d2c4f6 text on a white background

contrast 1.62:1

Card sample

#d2c4f6 on grey

1.48:1

#d2c4f6 on its own surface

1.48:1

#d2c4f6 on its dark surface

11.14:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d2c4f6;
Background color
Panel with #d2c4f6 background
background-color: #d2c4f6;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d2c4f6;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(210, 196, 246, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(210, 196, 246, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d2c4f6;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d2c4f6, #F3C4F6);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d2c4f6, #F6C4EC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d2c4f6;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d2c4f6;
caret-color: #d2c4f6;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d2c4f6;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EEE9FC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d2c4f6;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d2c4f6 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d2c4f6 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(210, 196, 246, 0.5)
rgb(210 196 246 / 50%)
#d2c4f680
hsl(257 74% 87% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d2c4f6 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d2c4f61a#FBF9FE
20%#d2c4f633#F6F3FD
40%#d2c4f666#EDE7FB
60%#d2c4f699#E4DCFA
80%#d2c4f6cc#DBD0F8

Gradients from #d2c4f6

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, #F2EDFC, #d2c4f6 45%, #2B116F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d2c4f6, #F2AAF0);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d2c4f6, #E8F6C4);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F5F2FD 0%, #d2c4f6 45%, #2B116F 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%, #F0F4FD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F6DFFA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #2B116F 0%, transparent 65%), #d2c4f6;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d2c4f6

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.

#d2c4f6 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

Very light tints can drop out on uncoated stock; check it at 100% size before signing off.

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 12.97:1.

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.

#d2c4f6, answered

What color is #d2c4f6?

#d2c4f6 is a pale vivid violet, closest to Thistle (ΔE2000 8.5). It sits at 257° on the hue wheel with 74% saturation and 87% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #d2c4f6?

rgb(210, 196, 246) — 210 red, 196 green and 246 blue out of 255, or 82.4% / 76.9% / 96.5% by channel.

What is #d2c4f6 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(257, 74%, 87%) and hsv(257, 20%, 96%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d2c4f6 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5984 and perceived brightness is 81%, so black text on it reaches 12.97:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d2c4f6?

Black. It scores 12.97:1 against #d2c4f6, versus 1.62:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d2c4f6 accessible on a white background?

#d2c4f6 on white scores 1.62:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #815AE6 to reach 4.5:1, or #5F2EDF for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d2c4f6?

#E8F6C4 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F6EBC4 and #CFF6C4, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d2c4f6?

For interface work: #F6F4FA as the surface, #CCC0ED for borders, #614B9B for secondary text, #B1B418 as an accent and #2B116F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C4CFF6 and #EBC4F6 stays calm, while #E8F6C4 is the loudest partner.

What is #d2c4f6 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(15%, 20%, 0%, 4%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #d2c4f6 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 #E4C4F6; nudged cooler, #C3C8F7.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d2c4f6?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 27.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d2c4f6 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d2c4f6 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d2c4f6] or text-[#d2c4f6], 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 #d2c4f6 with 50% opacity?

rgba(210, 196, 246, 0.5), or #d2c4f680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E9E2FB; over black, #69627B.

Is #d2c4f6 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCFF, ΔE2000 4.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d2c4f6 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 #d2c4f6?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F2EDFC, #d2c4f6 45%, #2B116F). For more colour, a short hue run to #F2AAF0 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d2c4f6 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d2c4f6 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.