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Pale Violet Red

Hex #DB7093, rgb(219 112 147). A pink CSS named color.

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About Pale Violet Red

Pale Violet Red is a medium saturated pink with the hex code #DB7093. In RGB it is made of 219 red, 112 green and 147 blue; in HSL its hue is 340°, with 60% saturation and 65% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 67.8%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "palevioletred" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 3.11:1 and against black 6.75:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Pale Violet Red 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 Pale Violet Red

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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Contrast and readability

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

Pale Violet Red textSmall text on white

On white3.11:1

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

APCA Lc 58

Pale Violet Red textSmall text on black

On black6.75:1

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

APCA Lc -44

Black text on Pale Violet Red (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#818694
  • Deuteranopia#9C9A91
  • Tritanopia#EA687D
  • Protanomaly#A08393
  • Deuteranomaly#AC9091
  • Tritanomaly#E26D89
  • Achromatopsia#929292

Colors similar to Pale Violet Red

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Pale Violet Red in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.pale-violet-red {
  color: palevioletred; /* #DB7093 */
  background-color: rgb(219 112 147);
  border-color: oklch(67.8% 0.138 0.7);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-pale-violet-red-500, text-pale-violet-red-700... */
@theme {
  --color-pale-violet-red-50: #FFF8FA;
  --color-pale-violet-red-100: #FDE6EC;
  --color-pale-violet-red-200: #F6CDD8;
  --color-pale-violet-red-300: #EEA5BA;
  --color-pale-violet-red-400: #DB7093;
  --color-pale-violet-red-500: #CC507D;
  --color-pale-violet-red-600: #B43E6A;
  --color-pale-violet-red-700: #932F55;
  --color-pale-violet-red-800: #762744;
  --color-pale-violet-red-900: #5F2037;
  --color-pale-violet-red-950: #2C0614;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#DB7093] text-[#000000]">…</div>