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violet · neutral

#d76cf2

a light, electric violet · neutral · closest name: Orchid

Token name suggestion: Drift Iris

RGB
215, 108, 242
HSL
288°, 84%, 69%
CMYK
11, 55, 0, 5
Luminance
0.3158

#d76cf2 is a light electric violet, 288° on the wheel and 57/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.32:1). As text it scores 2.87:1 on white — use #C11CEB instead. Nearest name is Orchid, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(288 84% 69%)rgb(215 108 242)Base step 400AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d76cf2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d76cf2
Hue
288°
violet
Saturation
84%
electric
Lightness
69%
light
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
65%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3158
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
57/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
7.32:1
Closest name
Orchid
ΔE2000 5.2
Chroma
79.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.707
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 6.1
Web-safe
#CC66FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue288° of 360°
Saturation84%
Lightness69%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d76cf2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool57% 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
Red46%
Green34%
Blue20%

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

Every format

HEX#d76cf2
HEX (8-digit)#d76cf2ff
RGBrgb(215, 108, 242)
RGBArgba(215, 108, 242, 1)
HSLhsl(288, 84%, 69%)
HSV / HSBhsv(288, 55%, 95%)
HWBhwb(288 42% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(11%, 55%, 0%, 5%)
LABlab(63.0 61.5 -49.7)
LCHlch(63.0 79.1 321.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.707 0.212 319.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(49.41, 31.59, 87.48)
Decimal14118130
Display P3color(display-p3 0.843 0.424 0.949)
Web-safe#CC66FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d76cf2;
background-color: #d76cf2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d76cf2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d76cf2] bg-[#d76cf2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d76cf2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.843, green: 0.424, blue: 0.949)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.843, green: 0.424, blue: 0.949, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D76CF2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD76CF2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD76CF2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(242, 108, 215)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(215, 108, 242)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(215, 108, 242)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 215, 108, 242)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8431f, 0.4235f, 0.9490f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{215,108,242}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d76cf2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d76cf2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#600A75, #E9D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d76cf2 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: #FAF2FC;
  --brand-100: #F6E6FA;
  --brand-200: #ECC5F6;
  --brand-300: #E398F6;
  --brand-400: #d76cf2;
  --brand-500: #C731ED;
  --brand-600: #B814E1;
  --brand-700: #9911BB;
  --brand-800: #7A0D96;
  --brand-900: #590E6C;
  --brand-950: #380944;
  --brand: #d76cf2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9F4FA;
  --brand-border: #E4C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #CE4BEF;
  --brand-pressed: #C52AEC;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #211424;
    --brand-ink: #E9D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAF2FC',
        100: '#F6E6FA',
        200: '#ECC5F6',
        300: '#E398F6',
        400: '#d76cf2',
        500: '#C731ED',
        600: '#B814E1',
        700: '#9911BB',
        800: '#7A0D96',
        900: '#590E6C',
        950: '#380944',
        DEFAULT: '#d76cf2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAF2FC,
  '100': #F6E6FA,
  '200': #ECC5F6,
  '300': #E398F6,
  '400': #d76cf2,
  '500': #C731ED,
  '600': #B814E1,
  '700': #9911BB,
  '800': #7A0D96,
  '900': #590E6C,
  '950': #380944,
);
$brand-base: #d76cf2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAF2FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F6E6FA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#ECC5F6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E398F6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#d76cf2", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#C731ED", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#B814E1", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#9911BB", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#7A0D96", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#590E6C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#380944", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #d76cf2 · 7.32:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.87:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.32:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d76cf2 as text scores 2.87:1 on white and 7.32:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #600A75 at 4.07:1.

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
#C11CEB · 4.53:1
AA on white−17% L
#C11CEB
The quick fox
#9410B5 · 7.00:1
AAA on white−30% L
#9410B5
The quick fox
#d76cf2 · 7.32:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d76cf2
The quick fox
#d76cf2 · 7.32:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d76cf2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #D463F1 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
#d76cf2 on white: 2.87:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d76cf2 on black: 7.32:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d76cf2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d76cf2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.87:1AaAa
Slate 502.74:1AaAa
Slate 1002.62:1AaAa
Slate 2002.33:1AaAa
Slate 3001.93:1AaAa
Slate 4001.12:1AaAa
Slate 5001.66:1AaAa
Slate 6002.64:1AaAa
Slate 7003.61:1AaAa
Slate 8005.10:1AaAa
Slate 9006.22:1AaAa
Black7.32:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #5091F6
deuteranopia · #749CEE
tritanopia · #D780A5

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. #d76cf2 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.

#FAF2FC
#F6E6FA
#ECC5F6
#E398F6
#d76cf2
#C731ED
#B814E1
#9911BB
#7A0D96
#590E6C
#380944
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #FAF2FCDarkest = 950 · #380944Text 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 0.053 319.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.085 319.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.127 319.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.165 319.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.195 319.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.212 319.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.212 319.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.199 319.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.178 319.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.148 319.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.116 319.2);
}

Colors that work with #d76cf2

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#E4C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8B4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#5DBF0D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#600A75
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F9E8FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#211424
Dark-mode background
Hover#CE4BEF
One step down in lightness
Pressed#C52AEC
Two steps down
Disabled#EAE2EC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E078FB
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 #d76cf2

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 #600A75
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #D463F1

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.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight31/100
  • 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#87F26C
Analogous left#946CF2
Analogous right#F26CCA
Split-complement 1#CAF26C
Split-complement 2#6CF294
Triadic 1#F2D76C
Triadic 2#6CF2D7
Tetradic#F2946C
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°288°

#d76cf2 sits at 288°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red84.3%
Green42.4%
Blue94.9%
R · 0–255
215
0xd7
G · 0–255
108
0x6c
B · 0–255
242
0xf2

CMYK percentages

Cyan11.2%
Magenta55.4%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)5.1%

Total ink coverage is 72%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d76cf2 text on a black background

contrast 7.32:1

Card sample

#d76cf2 text on a white background

contrast 2.87:1

Card sample

#d76cf2 on grey

2.62:1

#d76cf2 on its own surface

2.64:1

#d76cf2 on its dark surface

6.15:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d76cf2;
Background color
Panel with #d76cf2 background
background-color: #d76cf2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d76cf2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(215, 108, 242, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(215, 108, 242, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d76cf2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d76cf2, #F26CB4);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d76cf2, #F26C92);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d76cf2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d76cf2;
caret-color: #d76cf2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d76cf2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F9E8FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d76cf2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d76cf2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d76cf2 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(215, 108, 242, 0.5)
rgb(215 108 242 / 50%)
#d76cf280
hsl(288 84% 69% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d76cf2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d76cf21a#FBF0FE
20%#d76cf233#F7E2FC
40%#d76cf266#EFC4FA
60%#d76cf299#E7A7F7
80%#d76cf2cc#DF89F5

Gradients from #d76cf2

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, #E6A4F7, #d76cf2 45%, #600A75);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d76cf2, #EF5098);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d76cf2, #87F26C);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #EEC0F9 0%, #d76cf2 45%, #600A75 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%, #AE9BF6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F488CB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #600A75 0%, transparent 65%), #d76cf2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d76cf2

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.

#d76cf2 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

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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 7.32:1.

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.

#d76cf2, answered

What color is #d76cf2?

#d76cf2 is a light electric violet, closest to Orchid (ΔE2000 5.2). It sits at 288° on the hue wheel with 84% saturation and 69% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #d76cf2?

rgb(215, 108, 242) — 215 red, 108 green and 242 blue out of 255, or 84.3% / 42.4% / 94.9% by channel.

What is #d76cf2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(288, 84%, 69%) and hsv(288, 55%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d76cf2 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3158 and perceived brightness is 65%, so black text on it reaches 7.32:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d76cf2?

Black. It scores 7.32:1 against #d76cf2, versus 2.87:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d76cf2 accessible on a white background?

#d76cf2 on white scores 2.87:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #C11CEB to reach 4.5:1, or #9410B5 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d76cf2?

#87F26C sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #CAF26C and #6CF294, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d76cf2?

For interface work: #F9F4FA as the surface, #E4C0ED for borders, #8B4B9B for secondary text, #5DBF0D as an accent and #600A75 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #946CF2 and #F26CCA stays calm, while #87F26C is the loudest partner.

What is #d76cf2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(11%, 55%, 0%, 5%). 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 #d76cf2 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 57 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F26CDC; nudged cooler, #A66AF4.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d76cf2?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 6.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d76cf2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d76cf2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d76cf2] or text-[#d76cf2], 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 #d76cf2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(215, 108, 242, 0.5), or #d76cf280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EBB6F9; over black, #6C3679.

Is #d76cf2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CC66FF, ΔE2000 3.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d76cf2 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 #d76cf2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #E6A4F7, #d76cf2 45%, #600A75). For more colour, a short hue run to #EF5098 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d76cf2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d76cf2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.