#AA75FF

sRGB: 170 / 117 / 255

Radiant blossoms flourish beyond boundaries
Hidden pathways wander across quiet meadows
Celestial symphonies echo beyond eternity

#AA75FF belongs to the violet family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 170 red, 117 green and 255 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 263.0° lands in the violet region. Its 100.0% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 72.9% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, black has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (6.70:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 170, 117, 255
HSL: 263.04°, 100.00%, 72.94%
HSV / HSB: 263.04°, 54.12%, 100.00%
CMYK (approx.): 33.33%, 54.12%, 0.00%, 0.00%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 40.986, 28.489, 97.951
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 60.328, 48.752, -61.456
WCAG relative luminance: 0.28489
24-bit decimal: 11171327

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #AA75FF in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 6.70:1

Normal text: AA
Large text: AAA

White text: 3.14:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#CAFF75 sits half a turn (180°) from #AA75FF on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#AA75FF #CAFF75

Analogous

#7585FF and #EF75FF sit 30° to either side of #AA75FF. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#7585FF #AA75FF #EF75FF

Triadic

#AA75FF, #FFAA75 and #75FFAA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AA75FF #FFAA75 #75FFAA

Split complementary

Start at #AA75FF and look across the wheel. #FFEF75 and #85FF75 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AA75FF #FFEF75 #85FF75

Square

Starting with #AA75FF, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #FF7585, #CAFF75, then #75FFEF. Across the square, #AA75FF pairs with #CAFF75, and #FF7585 with #75FFEF.

#AA75FF #FF7585 #CAFF75 #75FFEF

Tetradic

#AA75FF and #CAFF75 are opposites, as are #FF75CA and #75FFAA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AA75FF #FF75CA #CAFF75 #75FFAA

Tints

Mixing #AA75FF with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BB91FF, keeps 80% of the original. By #EEE3FF, the mixture is 80% white.

#AA75FF #BB91FF #CCACFF #DDC8FF #EEE3FF #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AA75FF with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #885ECC, keeps 80% of the original. By #221733, the mixture is 80% black.

#AA75FF #885ECC #664699 #442F66 #221733 #000000

Tones

Mixing #AA75FF with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A277E6, keeps 80% of the original. By #887E99, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AA75FF #A277E6 #9979CC #917CB3 #887E99 #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#AA75FF

RGB

rgb(170 117 255)

HSL

hsl(263.043 100.000% 72.941%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AA75FF;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AA75FF uses 170 red, 117 green and 255 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 66.7%

Green 45.9%

Blue 100.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AA75FF is 33.3% cyan, 54.1% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 0.0% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 33.3%

Magenta 54.1%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 0.0%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #AA77FF. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #A7F in CSS. For a modern design, keep #AA75FF when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #9966FF, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #AA77FF Nearest web-safe: #9966FF

Gradient to complement

#AA75FF #AF8CE8 #B5A3D1 #BABABA #BFD1A3 #C5E88C #CAFF75

Color vision previews

Compare how #AA75FF appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#3B91FF

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#4C90FC

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#9891AF

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#7289FF

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#7389FD

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#A480E6

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#919191

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#9E84D2

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.40198 G 0.17789 B 1.00000

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.63600 G 0.46767 B 0.96870

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.36219 G 0.18533 B 0.93027

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.245 y 0.170 Y 28.489

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 33.333 M % 54.118 Y % 0.000

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

10101010 01110101 11111111