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Color#3900a3rgb(57, 0, 163) · violet

#3900a3 color

Values, variations, harmonies, an accessible palette and ready-to-paste CSS for #3900a3.

Color values

The same color written in every notation you are likely to need. Click any row to copy it.

What HEX means

#3900a3 packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: 39 red, 00 green, a3 blue.

What RGB means

Red 57, green 0, blue 163 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 261° (violet), saturation 100%, lightness 32%. HSL is handy when you want the same hue a little lighter or less saturated.

Why OKLCH

OKLCH is a perceptual space — changing its lightness (35.5%) matches how your eye reads brightness far better than HSL, which is why the palette below is generated in it.

Accessibility & contrast

WCAG requires at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text at level AA. Use this to decide whether white or black text belongs on this color.

AaThis text is readable
White text12.33:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text1.7:1
AA AAA AA Large

Closest accessible alternative

Nudged in lightness to reach 4.5:1 while keeping the hue as close as possible.

Aa

For black text

#7060f2

4.64:1

UI preview

How this color behaves in a real interface, not just as a square.

Badge

A paragraph with a themed link inside it.

Information

An alert accented with this color.

Progress

Tints & shades

A tint mixes the color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. Click any swatch to open it.

Color harmonies

Schemes built by rotating the hue around the color wheel — the starting point for a coherent palette.

Complementary

Opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast.

Analogous

Neighbours on the wheel — calm and cohesive.

Triadic

Three hues 120° apart — vivid but balanced.

Split complementary

Softer than a straight complement.

Tetradic

Four hues — enough for a design system.

Palette generator

A Tailwind-style 50–950 ramp anchored on this color at step 500, generated in OKLCH so the steps feel evenly spaced.

:root {
  --primary-50: #f1f3ff;
  --primary-100: #e3e6ff;
  --primary-200: #cdceff;
  --primary-300: #b3b1ff;
  --primary-400: #938cff;
  --primary-500: #3900a3;
  --primary-600: #5e4ad7;
  --primary-700: #4b35b7;
  --primary-800: #3b2499;
  --primary-900: #2f1b7f;
  --primary-950: #1a0e4b;
}

Gradient

A linear blend from this color to its complement, with the CSS ready to paste.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3900a3, #6aa300);

Nearest named colors

The closest matches from a corpus of about 31,900 named colours, ranked by ΔE (CIEDE2000) — a measure of how different two colours look. ΔE under 1 is nearly indistinguishable; around 10 is clearly different.

CSS code

Every common way to use this color in a stylesheet or a component.

color: #3900a3;
background-color: #3900a3;
:root {
  --color-primary: #3900a3;
}
color: rgb(57 0 163);
color: oklch(35.5% 0.2108 282.75);
<div class="bg-[#3900a3]">…</div>