HEX Color #DB75E9 (Violet)

About #DB75E9

The hex code #DB75E9 represents a beautifully specific shade of magenta. If you're using CSS, you might find it aligns closely with Violet. Its digital footprint relies on 219 parts red, 117 parts green, and 233 parts blue light.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 6% cyan and 50% magenta inks. The HSL representation is 292.8° hue, 72.5% saturation, and 68.6% lightness.

Ensuring your text is legible against this background is a key part of web design. 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#DB75E9

RGB219, 117, 233

HSL292.8°, 72.5%, 68.6%

CMYK6%, 50%, 0%, 9%

HSV292.8°, 49.8%, 91.4%

LAB64.7, 56.6, -42.0

XYZ50.3, 33.7, 80.9

Decimal14382569

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#DB75E9 #82E974

Analogous

#A174E9 #E974BC

Triadic

#E9DB74 #74E9DA

Tetradic

#E9A174 #82E974 #74BDE9

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#DB75E9

#DF84EB

#E393ED

#E7A3F0

#EBB2F2

#EFC1F5

#F3D1F7

#F7E0FA

#FBEFFC

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#DB75E9

#C268CF

#AA5BB5

#924E9B

#794181

#613467

#49274D

#301A33

#180D19

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

2.72:1

Text on #FFFFFF

FAIL

7.73:1

Text on #000000

AAA

2.60:1

Text on #F8FAFC

FAIL

6.57:1

Text on #0F172A

AA

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #DB75E9; }

.text-color { color: #DB75E9; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #DB75E9; }

Similar Colors

Violet

#EE82EE