HEX Color #AF07DB (Darkviolet)

About #AF07DB

At its core, #AF07DB is a medium and vivid hue. If you're using CSS, you might find it aligns closely with Darkviolet. To achieve this exact tint on a monitor, you would use an RGB mix of 175, 7, and 219.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 20% cyan and 97% magenta inks. This makes it a relatively light color when applied to physical surfaces.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. To prevent eye strain, #FFFFFF text pairs best with this hex code. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#AF07DB

RGB175, 7, 219

HSL287.5°, 93.8%, 44.3%

CMYK20%, 97%, 0%, 14%

HSV287.5°, 96.8%, 85.9%

LAB44.8, 80.5, -66.3

XYZ30.5, 14.4, 68.2

Decimal11470811

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#AF07DB #32DB06

Analogous

#4506DB #DB069C

Triadic

#DBAF06 #06DBAF

Tetradic

#DB4506 #32DB06 #069CDB

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#AF07DB

#B722DF

#C03EE3

#C959E7

#D275EB

#DB90EF

#E4ACF3

#EDC7F7

#F6E3FB

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#AF07DB

#9B06C2

#8805AA

#740492

#610379

#4D0361

#3A0249

#260130

#130018

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

5.42:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AA

3.88:1

Text on #000000

AA Large

5.18:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AA

3.30:1

Text on #0F172A

AA Large

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #AF07DB; }

.text-color { color: #AF07DB; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #AF07DB; }

Similar Colors

Darkviolet

#9400D3