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magenta / pink · neutral

#ba2eb0

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

Token name suggestion: True Ruby

RGB
186, 46, 176
HSL
304°, 60%, 46%
CMYK
0, 75, 5, 27
Luminance
0.1553

#ba2eb0 is a balanced vivid magenta / pink, 304° on the wheel and 48/100 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(304 60% 46%)rgb(186 46 176)Base step 600AA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ba2eb0 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ba2eb0
Hue
304°
magenta / pink
Saturation
60%
vivid
Lightness
46%
balanced
Brightness
73%
HSV value
Perceived
48%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1553
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
48/100 cool
Color family
Magenta / pink
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
5.12:1
Closest name
Dark Orchid
ΔE2000 8.7
Chroma
78.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.567
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 12.2
Web-safe
#CC3399
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue304° of 360°
Saturation60%
Lightness46%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ba2eb0.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool48% 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
Red67%
Green13%
Blue20%

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

Every format

HEX#ba2eb0
HEX (8-digit)#ba2eb0ff
RGBrgb(186, 46, 176)
RGBArgba(186, 46, 176, 1)
HSLhsl(304, 60%, 46%)
HSV / HSBhsv(304, 75%, 73%)
HWBhwb(304 18% 27%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 75%, 5%, 27%)
LABlab(46.4 68.1 -38.7)
LCHlch(46.4 78.3 330.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.567 0.222 331.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(29.06, 15.53, 42.53)
Decimal12201648
Display P3color(display-p3 0.729 0.180 0.690)
Web-safe#CC3399

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ba2eb0;
background-color: #ba2eb0;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ba2eb0;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ba2eb0] bg-[#ba2eb0]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ba2eb0;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.729, green: 0.180, blue: 0.690)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.729, green: 0.180, blue: 0.690, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BA2EB0</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBA2EB0)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBA2EB0)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(176, 46, 186)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(186, 46, 176)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(186, 46, 176)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 186, 46, 176)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7294f, 0.1804f, 0.6902f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{186,46,176}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ba2eb0 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ba2eb0 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#661961, #EED3EC);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ba2eb0 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: #FBF4FA;
  --brand-100: #F7E9F6;
  --brand-200: #EFCCED;
  --brand-300: #E9A5E4;
  --brand-400: #DE78D6;
  --brand-500: #D24BC9;
  --brand-600: #ba2eb0;
  --brand-700: #A4289B;
  --brand-800: #83207C;
  --brand-900: #5F1B5A;
  --brand-950: #3B1138;
  --brand: #ba2eb0;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #FAF4FA;
  --brand-border: #EDC0E9;
  --brand-hover: #9D2795;
  --brand-pressed: #81207A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #241423;
    --brand-ink: #EED3EC;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBF4FA',
        100: '#F7E9F6',
        200: '#EFCCED',
        300: '#E9A5E4',
        400: '#DE78D6',
        500: '#D24BC9',
        600: '#ba2eb0',
        700: '#A4289B',
        800: '#83207C',
        900: '#5F1B5A',
        950: '#3B1138',
        DEFAULT: '#ba2eb0',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBF4FA,
  '100': #F7E9F6,
  '200': #EFCCED,
  '300': #E9A5E4,
  '400': #DE78D6,
  '500': #D24BC9,
  '600': #ba2eb0,
  '700': #A4289B,
  '800': #83207C,
  '900': #5F1B5A,
  '950': #3B1138,
);
$brand-base: #ba2eb0;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBF4FA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7E9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EFCCED", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E9A5E4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#DE78D6", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#D24BC9", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#ba2eb0", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A4289B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#83207C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5F1B5A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3B1138", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ba2eb0 · 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 · 4.11:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #ba2eb0 as text scores 5.12:1 on white and 4.11:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #FAEBF9 at 4.46:1.

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
#ba2eb0 · 5.12:1
AA on whitealready passes
#ba2eb0
The quick fox
#95258D · 7.17:1
AAA on white−9% L
#95258D
The quick fox
#C631BC · 4.57:1
AA on black+3% L
#C631BC
The quick fox
#DB6ED3 · 7.18:1
AAA on black+19% L
#DB6ED3

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #BA2EB0 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
#ba2eb0 on white: 5.12:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ba2eb0 on black: 4.11:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ba2eb0 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ba2eb0.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.12:1AaAa
Slate 504.89:1AaAa
Slate 1004.67:1AaAa
Slate 2004.15:1AaAa
Slate 3003.45:1AaAa
Slate 4001.99:1AaAa
Slate 5001.07:1AaAa
Slate 6001.48:1AaAa
Slate 7002.02:1AaAa
Slate 8002.86:1AaAa
Slate 9003.49:1AaAa
Black4.11:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #2061B3
deuteranopia · #5B75AD
tritanopia · #C2406D

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. #ba2eb0 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.

#FBF4FA
#F7E9F6
#EFCCED
#E9A5E4
#DE78D6
#D24BC9
#ba2eb0
#A4289B
#83207C
#5F1B5A
#3B1138
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #FBF4FADarkest = 950 · #3B1138Text 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 0.055 331.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.089 331.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.133 331.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.173 331.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.204 331.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.222 331.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.222 331.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.208 331.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.186 331.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.155 331.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.122 331.3);
}

Colors that work with #ba2eb0

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#EDC0E9
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#9B4B95
Captions on the surface
Accent#3CA824
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#661961
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAEBF9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#241423
Dark-mode background
Hover#9D2795
One step down in lightness
Pressed#81207A
Two steps down
Disabled#BE9ABC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D725CA
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 #ba2eb0

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.

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 mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight55/100
  • 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#2EBA38
Analogous left#7E2EBA
Analogous right#BA2E6A
Split-complement 1#6ABA2E
Split-complement 2#2EBA7E
Triadic 1#B0BA2E
Triadic 2#2EB0BA
Tetradic#BA7E2E
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°304°

#ba2eb0 sits at 304°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red72.9%
Green18.0%
Blue69.0%
R · 0–255
186
0xba
G · 0–255
46
0x2e
B · 0–255
176
0xb0

CMYK percentages

Cyan0.0%
Magenta75.3%
Yellow5.4%
Key (black)27.1%

Total ink coverage is 108%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ba2eb0 text on a black background

contrast 4.11:1

Card sample

#ba2eb0 text on a white background

contrast 5.12:1

Card sample

#ba2eb0 on grey

4.67:1

#ba2eb0 on its own surface

4.72:1

#ba2eb0 on its dark surface

3.42:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ba2eb0;
Background color
Panel with #ba2eb0 background
background-color: #ba2eb0;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ba2eb0;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(186, 46, 176, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(186, 46, 176, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ba2eb0;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ba2eb0, #BA2E53);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ba2eb0, #BA2E30);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ba2eb0;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ba2eb0;
caret-color: #ba2eb0;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ba2eb0;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAEBF9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ba2eb0;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ba2eb0 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ba2eb0 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, 46, 176, 0.5)
rgb(186 46 176 / 50%)
#ba2eb080
hsl(304 60% 46% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ba2eb0 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ba2eb01a#F8EAF7
20%#ba2eb033#F1D5EF
40%#ba2eb066#E3ABDF
60%#ba2eb099#D682D0
80%#ba2eb0cc#C858C0

Gradients from #ba2eb0

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, #D451CB, #ba2eb0 45%, #661961);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ba2eb0, #A1283E);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ba2eb0, #2EBA38);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #DA6AD2 0%, #ba2eb0 45%, #661961 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%, #8C49D2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #CE396C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #661961 0%, transparent 65%), #ba2eb0;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ba2eb0

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.

#ba2eb0 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 4.11:1 — lift it to #C631BC 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.

#ba2eb0, answered

What color is #ba2eb0?

#ba2eb0 is a balanced vivid magenta / pink, closest to Dark Orchid (ΔE2000 8.7). It sits at 304° on the hue wheel with 60% saturation and 46% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #ba2eb0?

rgb(186, 46, 176) — 186 red, 46 green and 176 blue out of 255, or 72.9% / 18% / 69% by channel.

What is #ba2eb0 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(304, 60%, 46%) and hsv(304, 75%, 73%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ba2eb0 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1553 and perceived brightness is 48%, so white text on it reaches 5.12:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ba2eb0?

White. It scores 5.12:1 against #ba2eb0, versus 4.11:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #ba2eb0 accessible on a white background?

#ba2eb0 on white scores 5.12:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #ba2eb0?

#2EBA38 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #6ABA2E and #2EBA7E, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ba2eb0?

For interface work: #FAF4FA as the surface, #EDC0E9 for borders, #9B4B95 for secondary text, #3CA824 as an accent and #661961 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #7E2EBA and #BA2E6A stays calm, while #2EBA38 is the loudest partner.

What is #ba2eb0 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(0%, 75%, 5%, 27%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ba2eb0 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 48 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BA2E7D; nudged cooler, #922CBC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ba2eb0?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 12.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ba2eb0 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ba2eb0 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ba2eb0] or text-[#ba2eb0], 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 #ba2eb0 with 50% opacity?

rgba(186, 46, 176, 0.5), or #ba2eb080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DD97D8; over black, #5D1758.

Is #ba2eb0 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC3399, ΔE2000 7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ba2eb0 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 #ba2eb0?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #D451CB, #ba2eb0 45%, #661961). For more colour, a short hue run to #A1283E keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ba2eb0 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ba2eb0 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.