HEX Color #500749 (Purple)

About #500749

The precise color #500749 is an excellent choice for modern design projects. Designers often compare it to the standard color Purple. In the RGB color space, it consists of 80 red, 7 green, and 73 blue.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 0% cyan and 91% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 305.8 degrees, it sits comfortably in the magenta spectrum.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. Mathematical luminance calculations suggest that #FFFFFF text provides the most optimal reading experience. You can view the detailed AAA and AA pass/fail metrics in the table below.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#500749

RGB80, 7, 73

HSL305.8°, 83.9%, 17.1%

CMYK0%, 91%, 9%, 69%

HSV305.8°, 91.2%, 31.4%

LAB17.2, 39.1, -21.0

XYZ4.6, 2.3, 6.5

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Color Harmonies

Complementary

#500749 #07500E

Analogous

#320750 #500724

Triadic

#485007 #074950

Tetradic

#503207 #07500E #072450

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#500749

#63225D

#763E71

#8A5985

#9D7599

#B190AE

#C4ACC2

#D8C7D6

#EBE3EA

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#500749

#470640

#3E0538

#350430

#2C0328

#230320

#1A0218

#110110

#080008

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

14.31:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AAA

1.47:1

Text on #000000

FAIL

13.68:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AAA

1.25:1

Text on #0F172A

FAIL

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #500749; }

.text-color { color: #500749; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #500749; }

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