HEX Color #C575E2 (Orchid)

About #C575E2

When working with digital screens, the color #C575E2 is rendered by mixing light. Designers often compare it to the standard color Orchid. This translates to an RGB value of rgb(197, 117, 226).

When sending designs containing this color to a printer, the CMYK values come into play. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 13% cyan and 48% magenta inks. The HSL representation is 284.0° hue, 65.3% saturation, and 67.3% lightness.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. The calculated luminance score dictates that #000000 typography is the safest choice. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#C575E2

RGB197, 117, 226

HSL284.0°, 65.3%, 67.3%

CMYK13%, 48%, 0%, 11%

HSV284.0°, 48.2%, 88.6%

LAB61.7, 49.1, -43.0

XYZ43.1, 30.1, 75.5

Decimal12940770

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#C575E2 #91E274

Analogous

#8E74E2 #E274C8

Triadic

#E2C574 #74E2C5

Tetradic

#E28E74 #91E274 #74C8E2

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#C575E2

#CB84E5

#D193E8

#D8A3EB

#DEB2EE

#E5C1F2

#EBD1F5

#F2E0F8

#F8EFFB

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#C575E2

#AF68C8

#995BAF

#834E96

#6D417D

#573464

#41274B

#2B1A32

#150D19

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

2.99:1

Text on #FFFFFF

FAIL

7.02:1

Text on #000000

AAA

2.86:1

Text on #F8FAFC

FAIL

5.97:1

Text on #0F172A

AA

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #C575E2; }

.text-color { color: #C575E2; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #C575E2; }

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Orchid

#DA70D6