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Color#604dc2rgb(96, 77, 194) · violet

#604dc2 color

Values, variations, harmonies, an accessible palette and ready-to-paste CSS for #604dc2.

Color values

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

What HEX means

#604dc2 packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: 60 red, 4d green, c2 blue.

What RGB means

Red 96, green 77, blue 194 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 250° (violet), saturation 49%, lightness 53%. 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 (50.5%) 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 text6.29:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text3.34:1
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

#7363da

4.53:1

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: #f4f3ff;
  --primary-100: #e8e7ff;
  --primary-200: #d2cfff;
  --primary-300: #b9b3ff;
  --primary-400: #9a90ff;
  --primary-500: #604dc2;
  --primary-600: #6351c4;
  --primary-700: #4f3ca5;
  --primary-800: #3e2c8a;
  --primary-900: #322272;
  --primary-950: #1b1243;
}

Gradient

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #604dc2, #aec24c);

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: #604dc2;
background-color: #604dc2;
:root {
  --color-primary: #604dc2;
}
color: rgb(96 77 194);
color: oklch(50.5% 0.1752 285.7);
<div class="bg-[#604dc2]">…</div>