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Dark Violet

Hex #9400D3, rgb(148 0 211). A purple CSS named color.

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About Dark Violet

Dark Violet is a medium vivid purple with the hex code #9400D3. In RGB it is made of 148 red, 0 green and 211 blue; in HSL its hue is 282°, with 100% saturation and 41% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 51.5%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "darkviolet" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 6.56:1 and against black 3.20:1, so white text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Dark Violet mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

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Dark Violet 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Dark Violet

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Dark Violet with white and black. The readable text color on Dark Violet is white.

Dark Violet textSmall text on white

On white6.56:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc 80

Dark Violet textSmall text on black

On black3.20:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -22

White text on Dark Violet (#FFFFFF)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Dark Violet appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#0058D8
  • Deuteranopia#005FD0
  • Tritanopia#8A4C7B
  • Protanomaly#1F4DD5
  • Deuteranomaly#3453D1
  • Tritanomaly#9230B2
  • Achromatopsia#5D5D5D

Colors similar to Dark Violet

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Dark Violet in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.dark-violet {
  color: darkviolet; /* #9400D3 */
  background-color: rgb(148 0 211);
  border-color: oklch(51.5% 0.261 309.8);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-dark-violet-500, text-dark-violet-700... */
@theme {
  --color-dark-violet-50: #FCF8FF;
  --color-dark-violet-100: #F5E9FF;
  --color-dark-violet-200: #EBD2FF;
  --color-dark-violet-300: #DCAEFF;
  --color-dark-violet-400: #C979FF;
  --color-dark-violet-500: #BD4DFF;
  --color-dark-violet-600: #B100FB;
  --color-dark-violet-700: #9400D3;
  --color-dark-violet-800: #750BA7;
  --color-dark-violet-900: #5D0E85;
  --color-dark-violet-950: #240037;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#9400D3] text-[#FFFFFF]">…</div>