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Orchid

Hex #DA70D6, rgb(218 112 214). A purple CSS named color.

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About Orchid

Orchid is a light saturated purple with the hex code #DA70D6. In RGB it is made of 218 red, 112 green and 214 blue; in HSL its hue is 302°, with 59% saturation and 65% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 70.2%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "orchid" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.89:1 and against black 7.27:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

Tints (with white)

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Tones (with gray)

Orchid 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 Orchid

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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Analogous

Triadic

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Tetradic

Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Orchid textSmall text on white

On white2.89:1

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

APCA Lc 55

Orchid textSmall text on black

On black7.27:1

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

APCA Lc -47

Black text on Orchid (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#688FD9
  • Deuteranopia#879DD3
  • Tritanopia#E07A99
  • Protanomaly#9389D8
  • Deuteranomaly#9E93D4
  • Tritanomaly#DE74BD
  • Achromatopsia#989898

Colors similar to Orchid

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Orchid in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.orchid {
  color: orchid; /* #DA70D6 */
  background-color: rgb(218 112 214);
  border-color: oklch(70.2% 0.181 328.7);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-orchid-500, text-orchid-700... */
@theme {
  --color-orchid-50: #FFF7FE;
  --color-orchid-100: #FBE6F9;
  --color-orchid-200: #F5CEF1;
  --color-orchid-300: #ECA6E7;
  --color-orchid-400: #DA70D6;
  --color-orchid-500: #C94BC6;
  --color-orchid-600: #B136AE;
  --color-orchid-700: #90288E;
  --color-orchid-800: #732171;
  --color-orchid-900: #5C1C5B;
  --color-orchid-950: #290228;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#DA70D6] text-[#000000]">…</div>