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#dbd0fe

a pale, electric blue · cool · closest name: Thistle

Token name suggestion: Chalk Harbour

RGB
219, 208, 254
HSL
254°, 96%, 91%
CMYK
14, 18, 0, 0
Luminance
0.6733

#dbd0fe is a pale electric blue, 254° on the wheel and 75/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (14.47:1). As text it scores 1.45:1 on white — use #7B53FB instead. Nearest name is Thistle, nearest Tailwind family is fuchsia.

hsl(254 96% 91%)rgb(219 208 254)Base step 100AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #dbd0fe is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#dbd0fe
Hue
254°
blue
Saturation
96%
electric
Lightness
91%
pale
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
85%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6733
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
75/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
14.47:1
Closest name
Thistle
ΔE2000 8.8
Chroma
24.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.881
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
fuchsia
500 · ΔE 30.2
Web-safe
#CCCCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue254° of 360°
Saturation96%
Lightness91%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #dbd0fe.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool75% 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
Red22%
Green67%
Blue11%

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

Every format

HEX#dbd0fe
HEX (8-digit)#dbd0feff
RGBrgb(219, 208, 254)
RGBArgba(219, 208, 254, 1)
HSLhsl(254, 96%, 91%)
HSV / HSBhsv(254, 18%, 100%)
HWBhwb(254 82% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(14%, 18%, 0%, 0%)
LABlab(85.7 12.6 -21.1)
LCHlch(85.7 24.6 300.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.881 0.064 296.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(69.65, 67.33, 103.07)
Decimal14405886
Display P3color(display-p3 0.859 0.816 0.996)
Web-safe#CCCCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #dbd0fe;
background-color: #dbd0fe;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #dbd0fe;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#dbd0fe] bg-[#dbd0fe]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #dbd0fe;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.859, green: 0.816, blue: 0.996)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.859, green: 0.816, blue: 0.996, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DBD0FE</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDBD0FE)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDBD0FE)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(254, 208, 219)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(219, 208, 254)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(219, 208, 254)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 219, 208, 254)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8588f, 0.8157f, 0.9961f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{219,208,254}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #dbd0fe 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #dbd0fe 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#20037D, #D9D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #dbd0fe 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: #F4F1FD;
  --brand-100: #dbd0fe;
  --brand-200: #CFC1FA;
  --brand-300: #AB91FD;
  --brand-400: #815AFB;
  --brand-500: #5723FA;
  --brand-600: #3D05F0;
  --brand-700: #3304C8;
  --brand-800: #2903A0;
  --brand-900: #210773;
  --brand-950: #150548;
  --brand: #dbd0fe;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6F4FA;
  --brand-border: #CAC0ED;
  --brand-hover: #C0ADFD;
  --brand-pressed: #A58AFC;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #181424;
    --brand-ink: #D9D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4F1FD',
        100: '#dbd0fe',
        200: '#CFC1FA',
        300: '#AB91FD',
        400: '#815AFB',
        500: '#5723FA',
        600: '#3D05F0',
        700: '#3304C8',
        800: '#2903A0',
        900: '#210773',
        950: '#150548',
        DEFAULT: '#dbd0fe',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4F1FD,
  '100': #dbd0fe,
  '200': #CFC1FA,
  '300': #AB91FD,
  '400': #815AFB,
  '500': #5723FA,
  '600': #3D05F0,
  '700': #3304C8,
  '800': #2903A0,
  '900': #210773,
  '950': #150548,
);
$brand-base: #dbd0fe;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4F1FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#dbd0fe", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CFC1FA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#AB91FD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#815AFB", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#5723FA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#3D05F0", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#3304C8", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2903A0", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#210773", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#150548", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #dbd0fe · 14.47:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.45:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 14.47:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #dbd0fe as text scores 1.45:1 on white and 14.47:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #20037D at 10.55:1.

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
#7B53FB · 4.70:1
AA on white−25% L
#7B53FB
The quick fox
#5521FA · 7.04:1
AAA on white−35% L
#5521FA
The quick fox
#dbd0fe · 14.47:1
AA on blackalready passes
#dbd0fe
The quick fox
#dbd0fe · 14.47:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#dbd0fe

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #9E80FC 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
#dbd0fe on white: 1.45:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#dbd0fe on black: 14.47:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #dbd0fe as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #dbd0fe.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.45:1AaAa
Slate 501.39:1AaAa
Slate 1001.33:1AaAa
Slate 2001.18:1AaAa
Slate 3001.02:1AaAa
Slate 4001.77:1AaAa
Slate 5003.28:1AaAa
Slate 6005.22:1AaAa
Slate 7007.13:1AaAa
Slate 80010.08:1AaAa
Slate 90012.30:1AaAa
Black14.47:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C7D6FF
deuteranopia · #C8D6FD
tritanopia · #D5D7DF

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. #dbd0fe is pinned to step 100; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F4F1FD
#dbd0fe
#CFC1FA
#AB91FD
#815AFB
#5723FA
#3D05F0
#3304C8
#2903A0
#210773
#150548
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F4F1FDDarkest = 950 · #150548Text 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 0.016 296.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.025 296.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.038 296.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.050 296.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.059 296.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.064 296.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.064 296.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.060 296.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.054 296.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.045 296.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.035 296.0);
}

Colors that work with #dbd0fe

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#CAC0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#5E4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#CCC800
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#20037D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECE6FE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#181424
Dark-mode background
Hover#C0ADFD
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A58AFC
Two steps down
Disabled#F4F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E0D6FF
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 #dbd0fe

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 #20037D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #9E80FC

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

trustedcalmcompetentcorporate

The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

It is also the most crowded hue on the web. Distinctiveness has to come from your other choices.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight9/100
  • 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#F3FED0
Analogous left#D0DCFE
Analogous right#F2D0FE
Split-complement 1#FEF2D0
Split-complement 2#DCFED0
Triadic 1#FEDBD0
Triadic 2#D0FEDB
Tetradic#FED0DC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°254°

#dbd0fe sits at 254°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red85.9%
Green81.6%
Blue99.6%
R · 0–255
219
0xdb
G · 0–255
208
0xd0
B · 0–255
254
0xfe

CMYK percentages

Cyan13.8%
Magenta18.1%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 32%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#dbd0fe text on a black background

contrast 14.47:1

Card sample

#dbd0fe text on a white background

contrast 1.45:1

Card sample

#dbd0fe on grey

1.33:1

#dbd0fe on its own surface

1.33:1

#dbd0fe on its dark surface

12.42:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #dbd0fe;
Background color
Panel with #dbd0fe background
background-color: #dbd0fe;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #dbd0fe;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(219, 208, 254, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(219, 208, 254, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #dbd0fe;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #dbd0fe, #FAD0FE);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dbd0fe, #FED0F7);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #dbd0fe;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #dbd0fe;
caret-color: #dbd0fe;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #dbd0fe;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECE6FE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #dbd0fe;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#dbd0fe 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #dbd0fe 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(219, 208, 254, 0.5)
rgb(219 208 254 / 50%)
#dbd0fe80
hsl(254 96% 91% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #dbd0fe 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#dbd0fe1a#FBFAFF
20%#dbd0fe33#F8F6FF
40%#dbd0fe66#F1ECFF
60%#dbd0fe99#E9E3FE
80%#dbd0fecc#E2D9FE

Gradients from #dbd0fe

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, #F0EBFF, #dbd0fe 45%, #20037D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #dbd0fe, #FCB2FD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dbd0fe, #F3FED0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F4F0FF 0%, #dbd0fe 45%, #20037D 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%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FCEEFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #20037D 0%, transparent 65%), #dbd0fe;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #dbd0fe

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.

#dbd0fe in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyFinanceHealthcareEnterprise SaaS
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 14.47:1.

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.

#dbd0fe, answered

What color is #dbd0fe?

#dbd0fe is a pale electric blue, closest to Thistle (ΔE2000 8.8). It sits at 254° on the hue wheel with 96% saturation and 91% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #dbd0fe?

rgb(219, 208, 254) — 219 red, 208 green and 254 blue out of 255, or 85.9% / 81.6% / 99.6% by channel.

What is #dbd0fe in HSL and HSV?

hsl(254, 96%, 91%) and hsv(254, 18%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #dbd0fe a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6733 and perceived brightness is 85%, so black text on it reaches 14.47:1.

Should I use black or white text on #dbd0fe?

Black. It scores 14.47:1 against #dbd0fe, versus 1.45:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #dbd0fe accessible on a white background?

#dbd0fe on white scores 1.45:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #7B53FB to reach 4.5:1, or #5521FA for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #dbd0fe?

#F3FED0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FEF2D0 and #DCFED0, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #dbd0fe?

For interface work: #F6F4FA as the surface, #CAC0ED for borders, #5E4B9B for secondary text, #CCC800 as an accent and #20037D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D0DCFE and #F2D0FE stays calm, while #F3FED0 is the loudest partner.

What is #dbd0fe in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(14%, 18%, 0%, 0%). 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 #dbd0fe warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 75 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #ECD0FE; nudged cooler, #D0D6FE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #dbd0fe?

The fuchsia family — its 500 step is #d946ef, ΔE2000 30.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #dbd0fe as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #dbd0fe in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#dbd0fe] or text-[#dbd0fe], 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 #dbd0fe with 50% opacity?

rgba(219, 208, 254, 0.5), or #dbd0fe80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EDE8FF; over black, #6E687F.

Is #dbd0fe a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCFF, ΔE2000 4.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #dbd0fe mean?

As a blue, it reads trusted, calm, competent. The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #dbd0fe?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0EBFF, #dbd0fe 45%, #20037D). For more colour, a short hue run to #FCB2FD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #dbd0fe in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #dbd0fe at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.