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violet · cool

#c07cdb

a light, vivid violet · cool · closest name: Orchid

Token name suggestion: Meadow Iris

RGB
192, 124, 219
HSL
283°, 57%, 67%
CMYK
12, 43, 0, 14
Luminance
0.3074

#c07cdb is a light vivid violet, 283° on the wheel and 60/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.15:1). As text it scores 2.94:1 on white — use #A94CCE instead. Nearest name is Orchid, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(283 57% 67%)rgb(192 124 219)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #c07cdb is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#c07cdb
Hue
283°
violet
Saturation
57%
vivid
Lightness
67%
light
Brightness
86%
HSV value
Perceived
63%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3074
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
60/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
7.15:1
Closest name
Orchid
ΔE2000 5.7
Chroma
57.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.692
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 10.1
Web-safe
#CC66CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue283° of 360°
Saturation57%
Lightness67%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #c07cdb.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool60% 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
Red36%
Green47%
Blue17%

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

Every format

HEX#c07cdb
HEX (8-digit)#c07cdbff
RGBrgb(192, 124, 219)
RGBArgba(192, 124, 219, 1)
HSLhsl(283, 57%, 67%)
HSV / HSBhsv(283, 43%, 86%)
HWBhwb(283 49% 14%)
CMYKcmyk(12%, 43%, 0%, 14%)
LABlab(62.3 42.6 -38.2)
LCHlch(62.3 57.2 318.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.692 0.152 315.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(41.73, 30.74, 70.74)
Decimal12614875
Display P3color(display-p3 0.753 0.486 0.859)
Web-safe#CC66CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #c07cdb;
background-color: #c07cdb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #c07cdb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#c07cdb] bg-[#c07cdb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #c07cdb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.753, green: 0.486, blue: 0.859)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.753, green: 0.486, blue: 0.859, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#C07CDB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFC07CDB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFC07CDB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(219, 124, 192)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(192, 124, 219)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(192, 124, 219)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 192, 124, 219)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7529f, 0.4863f, 0.8588f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{192,124,219}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #c07cdb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #c07cdb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4F1B64, #E6D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #c07cdb 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: #F9F4FB;
  --brand-100: #F3E9F6;
  --brand-200: #E5CDEE;
  --brand-300: #D5A7E7;
  --brand-400: #c07cdb;
  --brand-500: #AA4FCF;
  --brand-600: #9835C0;
  --brand-700: #7F2CA0;
  --brand-800: #662380;
  --brand-900: #4B1D5D;
  --brand-950: #2F123A;
  --brand: #c07cdb;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9F4FA;
  --brand-border: #E0C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #B360D3;
  --brand-pressed: #A544CC;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #201424;
    --brand-ink: #E6D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9F4FB',
        100: '#F3E9F6',
        200: '#E5CDEE',
        300: '#D5A7E7',
        400: '#c07cdb',
        500: '#AA4FCF',
        600: '#9835C0',
        700: '#7F2CA0',
        800: '#662380',
        900: '#4B1D5D',
        950: '#2F123A',
        DEFAULT: '#c07cdb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9F4FB,
  '100': #F3E9F6,
  '200': #E5CDEE,
  '300': #D5A7E7,
  '400': #c07cdb,
  '500': #AA4FCF,
  '600': #9835C0,
  '700': #7F2CA0,
  '800': #662380,
  '900': #4B1D5D,
  '950': #2F123A,
);
$brand-base: #c07cdb;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9F4FB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3E9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E5CDEE", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D5A7E7", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#c07cdb", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#AA4FCF", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#9835C0", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7F2CA0", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#662380", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4B1D5D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2F123A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #c07cdb · 7.15:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.94:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.15:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #c07cdb as text scores 2.94:1 on white and 7.15:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #4F1B64 at 4.27:1.

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
#A94CCE · 4.55:1
AA on white−12% L
#A94CCE
The quick fox
#862EA9 · 7.05:1
AAA on white−25% L
#862EA9
The quick fox
#c07cdb · 7.15:1
AA on blackalready passes
#c07cdb
The quick fox
#c07cdb · 7.15:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#c07cdb

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #BE78DA 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
#c07cdb on white: 2.94:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#c07cdb on black: 7.15:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #c07cdb as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #c07cdb.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.94:1AaAa
Slate 502.81:1AaAa
Slate 1002.68:1AaAa
Slate 2002.38:1AaAa
Slate 3001.98:1AaAa
Slate 4001.15:1AaAa
Slate 5001.62:1AaAa
Slate 6002.58:1AaAa
Slate 7003.52:1AaAa
Slate 8004.98:1AaAa
Slate 9006.08:1AaAa
Black7.15:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #6B92DE
deuteranopia · #7D99D8
tritanopia · #BF89A1

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. #c07cdb is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F9F4FB
#F3E9F6
#E5CDEE
#D5A7E7
#c07cdb
#AA4FCF
#9835C0
#7F2CA0
#662380
#4B1D5D
#2F123A
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F9F4FBDarkest = 950 · #2F123AText 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 0.038 315.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.061 315.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.091 315.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.118 315.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.140 315.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.152 315.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.152 315.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.143 315.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.128 315.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.106 315.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.083 315.8);
}

Colors that work with #c07cdb

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#F9F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#E0C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#844B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#6AA428
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4F1B64
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5EBFA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#201424
Dark-mode background
Hover#B360D3
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A544CC
Two steps down
Disabled#E6DEEA
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#CB85E7
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 #c07cdb

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 #4F1B64
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #BE78DA

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 lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight33/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • 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#97DB7C
Analogous left#917CDB
Analogous right#DB7CC7
Split-complement 1#C7DB7C
Split-complement 2#7CDB91
Triadic 1#DBC07C
Triadic 2#7CDBC0
Tetradic#DB917C
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°283°

#c07cdb sits at 283°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red75.3%
Green48.6%
Blue85.9%
R · 0–255
192
0xc0
G · 0–255
124
0x7c
B · 0–255
219
0xdb

CMYK percentages

Cyan12.3%
Magenta43.4%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)14.1%

Total ink coverage is 70%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#c07cdb text on a black background

contrast 7.15:1

Card sample

#c07cdb text on a white background

contrast 2.94:1

Card sample

#c07cdb on grey

2.68:1

#c07cdb on its own surface

2.71:1

#c07cdb on its dark surface

6.02:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #c07cdb;
Background color
Panel with #c07cdb background
background-color: #c07cdb;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #c07cdb;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(192, 124, 219, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(192, 124, 219, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #c07cdb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #c07cdb, #DB7CB7);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c07cdb, #DB7C9F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #c07cdb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #c07cdb;
caret-color: #c07cdb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #c07cdb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5EBFA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #c07cdb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#c07cdb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #c07cdb 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(192, 124, 219, 0.5)
rgb(192 124 219 / 50%)
#c07cdb80
hsl(283 57% 67% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #c07cdb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#c07cdb1a#F9F2FB
20%#c07cdb33#F2E5F8
40%#c07cdb66#E6CBF1
60%#c07cdb99#D9B0E9
80%#c07cdbcc#CD96E2

Gradients from #c07cdb

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, #D7ACE8, #c07cdb 45%, #4F1B64);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #c07cdb, #D464A0);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c07cdb, #97DB7C);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #E3C4EF 0%, #c07cdb 45%, #4F1B64 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #ADA4E6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E294CB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4F1B64 0%, transparent 65%), #c07cdb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #c07cdb

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.

#c07cdb 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

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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 7.15:1.

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.

#c07cdb, answered

What color is #c07cdb?

#c07cdb is a light vivid violet, closest to Orchid (ΔE2000 5.7). It sits at 283° on the hue wheel with 57% saturation and 67% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #c07cdb?

rgb(192, 124, 219) — 192 red, 124 green and 219 blue out of 255, or 75.3% / 48.6% / 85.9% by channel.

What is #c07cdb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(283, 57%, 67%) and hsv(283, 43%, 86%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #c07cdb a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3074 and perceived brightness is 63%, so black text on it reaches 7.15:1.

Should I use black or white text on #c07cdb?

Black. It scores 7.15:1 against #c07cdb, versus 2.94:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #c07cdb accessible on a white background?

#c07cdb on white scores 2.94:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #A94CCE to reach 4.5:1, or #862EA9 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #c07cdb?

#97DB7C sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C7DB7C and #7CDB91, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #c07cdb?

For interface work: #F9F4FA as the surface, #E0C0ED for borders, #844B9B for secondary text, #6AA428 as an accent and #4F1B64 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #917CDB and #DB7CC7 stays calm, while #97DB7C is the loudest partner.

What is #c07cdb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(12%, 43%, 0%, 14%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #c07cdb warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 60 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DB7CD3; nudged cooler, #9D7BDD.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #c07cdb?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 10.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #c07cdb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #c07cdb in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#c07cdb] or text-[#c07cdb], 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 #c07cdb with 50% opacity?

rgba(192, 124, 219, 0.5), or #c07cdb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E0BEED; over black, #603E6E.

Is #c07cdb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC66CC, ΔE2000 6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #c07cdb 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 #c07cdb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #D7ACE8, #c07cdb 45%, #4F1B64). For more colour, a short hue run to #D464A0 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #c07cdb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #c07cdb at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.