HEX Color #992475 (Mediumvioletred)

About #992475

At its core, #992475 is a dark and moderate hue. Designers often compare it to the standard color Mediumvioletred. In the RGB color space, it consists of 153 red, 36 green, and 117 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 76% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 318.5 degrees, it sits comfortably in the magenta spectrum.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. Because it is a dark color, it is generally recommended to use #FFFFFF text. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#992475

RGB153, 36, 117

HSL318.5°, 61.9%, 37.1%

CMYK0%, 76%, 24%, 40%

HSV318.5°, 76.5%, 60.0%

LAB36.6, 54.9, -18.5

XYZ17.0, 9.3, 17.7

Decimal10036341

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#992475 #249948

Analogous

#822499 #99243A

Triadic

#759924 #247599

Tetradic

#998224 #249948 #243A99

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#992475

#A43C84

#AF5493

#BB6DA3

#C685B2

#D19DC1

#DDB6D1

#E8CEE0

#F3E6EF

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#992475

#882068

#771C5B

#66184E

#551441

#441034

#330C27

#22081A

#11040D

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

7.33:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AAA

2.86:1

Text on #000000

FAIL

7.01:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AAA

2.43:1

Text on #0F172A

FAIL

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #992475; }

.text-color { color: #992475; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #992475; }

Similar Colors

Mediumvioletred

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