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Color#ae62bbrgb(174, 98, 187) · magenta

#ae62bb color

Values, variations, harmonies, an accessible palette and ready-to-paste CSS for #ae62bb.

Color values

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

What HEX means

#ae62bb packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: ae red, 62 green, bb blue.

What RGB means

Red 174, green 98, blue 187 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 291° (magenta), saturation 40%, lightness 56%. 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 (61.6%) 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 text3.99:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text5.26:1
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 white text

#a459b1

4.52:1

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: #ffefff;
  --primary-100: #ffdfff;
  --primary-200: #f6c6fe;
  --primary-300: #e5a7ef;
  --primary-400: #c982d6;
  --primary-500: #ae62bb;
  --primary-600: #8d459a;
  --primary-700: #743280;
  --primary-800: #5e2369;
  --primary-900: #4d1a56;
  --primary-950: #2c0d32;
}

Gradient

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ae62bb, #6fbc62);

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: #ae62bb;
background-color: #ae62bb;
:root {
  --color-primary: #ae62bb;
}
color: rgb(174 98 187);
color: oklch(61.6% 0.1523 321.6);
<div class="bg-[#ae62bb]">…</div>