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#dccbf4

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

Token name suggestion: Whisper Plum

RGB
220, 203, 244
HSL
265°, 65%, 88%
CMYK
10, 17, 0, 4
Luminance
0.6446

#dccbf4 is a pale vivid violet, 265° on the wheel and 70/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.89:1). As text it scores 1.51:1 on white — use #8F59DC instead. Nearest name is Thistle, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(265 65% 88%)rgb(220 203 244)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #dccbf4 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#dccbf4
Hue
265°
violet
Saturation
65%
vivid
Lightness
88%
pale
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
84%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6446
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
70/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
13.89:1
Closest name
Thistle
ΔE2000 6.3
Chroma
22.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.869
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 29.3
Web-safe
#CCCCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue265° of 360°
Saturation65%
Lightness88%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #dccbf4.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool70% 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
Red24%
Green66%
Blue10%

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

Every format

HEX#dccbf4
HEX (8-digit)#dccbf4ff
RGBrgb(220, 203, 244)
RGBArgba(220, 203, 244, 1)
HSLhsl(265, 65%, 88%)
HSV / HSBhsv(265, 17%, 96%)
HWBhwb(265 80% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(10%, 17%, 0%, 4%)
LABlab(84.2 13.5 -18.0)
LCHlch(84.2 22.5 306.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.869 0.059 304.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(67.20, 64.46, 94.47)
Decimal14470132
Display P3color(display-p3 0.863 0.796 0.957)
Web-safe#CCCCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #dccbf4;
background-color: #dccbf4;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #dccbf4;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#dccbf4] bg-[#dccbf4]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #dccbf4;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.863, green: 0.796, blue: 0.957)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.863, green: 0.796, blue: 0.957, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DCCBF4</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDCCBF4)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDCCBF4)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(244, 203, 220)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(220, 203, 244)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(220, 203, 244)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 220, 203, 244)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8627f, 0.7961f, 0.9569f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{220,203,244}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #dccbf4 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #dccbf4 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#391669, #DED3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #dccbf4 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: #F7F3FB;
  --brand-100: #EEE8F7;
  --brand-200: #dccbf4;
  --brand-300: #C1A2EB;
  --brand-400: #A274E2;
  --brand-500: #8246D8;
  --brand-600: #6D2BCA;
  --brand-700: #5B24A8;
  --brand-800: #491C87;
  --brand-900: #371962;
  --brand-950: #220F3D;
  --brand: #dccbf4;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7F4FA;
  --brand-border: #D2C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #C8ADEE;
  --brand-pressed: #B490E8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1B1424;
    --brand-ink: #DED3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F3FB',
        100: '#EEE8F7',
        200: '#dccbf4',
        300: '#C1A2EB',
        400: '#A274E2',
        500: '#8246D8',
        600: '#6D2BCA',
        700: '#5B24A8',
        800: '#491C87',
        900: '#371962',
        950: '#220F3D',
        DEFAULT: '#dccbf4',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F3FB,
  '100': #EEE8F7,
  '200': #dccbf4,
  '300': #C1A2EB,
  '400': #A274E2,
  '500': #8246D8,
  '600': #6D2BCA,
  '700': #5B24A8,
  '800': #491C87,
  '900': #371962,
  '950': #220F3D,
);
$brand-base: #dccbf4;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F3FB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEE8F7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#dccbf4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C1A2EB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A274E2", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#8246D8", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#6D2BCA", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5B24A8", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#491C87", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#371962", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#220F3D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #dccbf4 · 13.89:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.51:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.89:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #dccbf4 as text scores 1.51:1 on white and 13.89:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #391669 at 9.31:1.

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
#8F59DC · 4.54:1
AA on white−27% L
#8F59DC
The quick fox
#702CD1 · 7.07:1
AAA on white−38% L
#702CD1
The quick fox
#dccbf4 · 13.89:1
AA on blackalready passes
#dccbf4
The quick fox
#dccbf4 · 13.89:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#dccbf4

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #A97FE4 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
#dccbf4 on white: 1.51:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#dccbf4 on black: 13.89:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #dccbf4 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #dccbf4.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.51:1AaAa
Slate 501.44:1AaAa
Slate 1001.38:1AaAa
Slate 2001.23:1AaAa
Slate 3001.02:1AaAa
Slate 4001.70:1AaAa
Slate 5003.15:1AaAa
Slate 6005.01:1AaAa
Slate 7006.85:1AaAa
Slate 8009.68:1AaAa
Slate 90011.81:1AaAa
Black13.89:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C4D2F6
deuteranopia · #C7D2F3
tritanopia · #D9D0D9

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. #dccbf4 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.

#F7F3FB
#EEE8F7
#dccbf4
#C1A2EB
#A274E2
#8246D8
#6D2BCA
#5B24A8
#491C87
#371962
#220F3D
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F7F3FBDarkest = 950 · #220F3DText 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 0.015 304.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.023 304.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.035 304.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.046 304.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.054 304.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.059 304.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.059 304.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.055 304.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.049 304.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.041 304.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.032 304.0);
}

Colors that work with #dccbf4

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#F7F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#D2C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#6C4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#95AC20
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#391669
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1EAFB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1B1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#C8ADEE
One step down in lightness
Pressed#B490E8
Two steps down
Disabled#F4F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E7D9FA
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 #dccbf4

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 #391669
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #A97FE4

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
  • Weight12/100
  • 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#E3F4CB
Analogous left#CBCEF4
Analogous right#F0CBF4
Split-complement 1#F4F0CB
Split-complement 2#CEF4CB
Triadic 1#F4DCCB
Triadic 2#CBF4DC
Tetradic#F4CBCE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°265°

#dccbf4 sits at 265°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red86.3%
Green79.6%
Blue95.7%
R · 0–255
220
0xdc
G · 0–255
203
0xcb
B · 0–255
244
0xf4

CMYK percentages

Cyan9.8%
Magenta16.8%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)4.3%

Total ink coverage is 31%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#dccbf4 text on a black background

contrast 13.89:1

Card sample

#dccbf4 text on a white background

contrast 1.51:1

Card sample

#dccbf4 on grey

1.38:1

#dccbf4 on its own surface

1.39:1

#dccbf4 on its dark surface

11.85:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #dccbf4;
Background color
Panel with #dccbf4 background
background-color: #dccbf4;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #dccbf4;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(220, 203, 244, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(220, 203, 244, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #dccbf4;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #dccbf4, #F4CBF1);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dccbf4, #F4CBE6);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #dccbf4;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #dccbf4;
caret-color: #dccbf4;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #dccbf4;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1EAFB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #dccbf4;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#dccbf4 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #dccbf4 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(220, 203, 244, 0.5)
rgb(220 203 244 / 50%)
#dccbf480
hsl(265 65% 88% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #dccbf4 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#dccbf41a#FCFAFE
20%#dccbf433#F8F5FD
40%#dccbf466#F1EAFB
60%#dccbf499#EAE0F8
80%#dccbf4cc#E3D5F6

Gradients from #dccbf4

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, #F4EEFB, #dccbf4 45%, #391669);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #dccbf4, #EFB2E5);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dccbf4, #E3F4CB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F7F2FC 0%, #dccbf4 45%, #391669 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F5F6FD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F9E4F9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #391669 0%, transparent 65%), #dccbf4;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #dccbf4

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.

#dccbf4 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 13.89:1.

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.

#dccbf4, answered

What color is #dccbf4?

#dccbf4 is a pale vivid violet, closest to Thistle (ΔE2000 6.3). It sits at 265° on the hue wheel with 65% saturation and 88% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #dccbf4?

rgb(220, 203, 244) — 220 red, 203 green and 244 blue out of 255, or 86.3% / 79.6% / 95.7% by channel.

What is #dccbf4 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(265, 65%, 88%) and hsv(265, 17%, 96%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #dccbf4 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6446 and perceived brightness is 84%, so black text on it reaches 13.89:1.

Should I use black or white text on #dccbf4?

Black. It scores 13.89:1 against #dccbf4, versus 1.51:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #dccbf4 accessible on a white background?

#dccbf4 on white scores 1.51:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #8F59DC to reach 4.5:1, or #702CD1 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #dccbf4?

#E3F4CB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F4F0CB and #CEF4CB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #dccbf4?

For interface work: #F7F4FA as the surface, #D2C0ED for borders, #6C4B9B for secondary text, #95AC20 as an accent and #391669 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CBCEF4 and #F0CBF4 stays calm, while #E3F4CB is the loudest partner.

What is #dccbf4 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(10%, 17%, 0%, 4%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #dccbf4 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 70 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #EBCBF4; nudged cooler, #CCCAF5.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #dccbf4?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 29.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #dccbf4 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #dccbf4 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#dccbf4] or text-[#dccbf4], 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 #dccbf4 with 50% opacity?

rgba(220, 203, 244, 0.5), or #dccbf480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EEE5FA; over black, #6E667A.

Is #dccbf4 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCFF, ΔE2000 6.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #dccbf4 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 #dccbf4?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4EEFB, #dccbf4 45%, #391669). For more colour, a short hue run to #EFB2E5 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #dccbf4 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #dccbf4 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.