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Rebecca Purple

Hex #663399, rgb(102 51 153). A purple CSS named color.

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About Rebecca Purple

Rebecca Purple is a dark saturated purple with the hex code #663399. In RGB it is made of 102 red, 51 green and 153 blue; in HSL its hue is 270°, with 50% saturation and 40% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 44.0%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "rebeccapurple" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 8.41:1 and against black 2.50:1, so white text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Rebecca Purple 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 Rebecca Purple

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 Rebecca Purple with white and black. The readable text color on Rebecca Purple is white.

Rebecca Purple textSmall text on white

On white8.41:1

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

APCA Lc 88

Rebecca Purple textSmall text on black

On black2.50:1

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

APCA Lc -14

White text on Rebecca Purple (#FFFFFF)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#004C9C
  • Deuteranopia#0F4D97
  • Tritanopia#5C4961
  • Protanomaly#2E479B
  • Deuteranomaly#334898
  • Tritanomaly#643D83
  • Achromatopsia#4D4D4D

Colors similar to Rebecca Purple

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Rebecca Purple in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.rebecca-purple {
  color: rebeccapurple; /* #663399 */
  background-color: rgb(102 51 153);
  border-color: oklch(44% 0.16 303.4);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-rebecca-purple-500, text-rebecca-purple-700... */
@theme {
  --color-rebecca-purple-50: #FBF9FF;
  --color-rebecca-purple-100: #F2EAFF;
  --color-rebecca-purple-200: #E5D3FF;
  --color-rebecca-purple-300: #D2B1FF;
  --color-rebecca-purple-400: #BA7FFF;
  --color-rebecca-purple-500: #AB5BFB;
  --color-rebecca-purple-600: #9749E2;
  --color-rebecca-purple-700: #7D3BBC;
  --color-rebecca-purple-800: #663399;
  --color-rebecca-purple-900: #51297A;
  --color-rebecca-purple-950: #1F0437;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#663399] text-[#FFFFFF]">…</div>