HEX Color #500F75 (Indigo)

About #500F75

When working with digital screens, the color #500F75 is rendered by mixing light. Designers often compare it to the standard color Indigo. In the RGB color space, it consists of 80 red, 15 green, and 117 blue.

Translating this color to physical media requires the CMYK color model. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 32% cyan and 87% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 278.2 degrees, it sits comfortably in the purple 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. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#500F75

RGB80, 15, 117

HSL278.2°, 77.3%, 25.9%

CMYK32%, 87%, 0%, 54%

HSV278.2°, 87.2%, 45.9%

LAB21.3, 45.6, -43.6

XYZ6.7, 3.3, 17.1

Decimal5246837

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#500F75 #34740F

Analogous

#1C0F74 #740F67

Triadic

#744F0F #0F7450

Tetradic

#741C0F #34740F #0F6674

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#500F75

#632984

#764493

#8A5FA3

#9D79B2

#B194C1

#C4AFD1

#D8C9E0

#EBE4EF

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#500F75

#470D68

#3E0B5B

#350A4E

#2C0841

#230634

#1A0527

#11031A

#08010D

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

12.60:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AAA

1.67:1

Text on #000000

FAIL

12.05:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AAA

1.42:1

Text on #0F172A

FAIL

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #500F75; }

.text-color { color: #500F75; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #500F75; }

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