CSS named colour

Medium Purple

#9370db

A CSS named colour: mediumpurple is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB: rgb(147 112 219)
HSL: 260°, 60%, 65%
OKLCh: 62.7% 0.158 296.7

Medium Purple in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#9370db`
RGB	`rgb(147 112 219)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(147, 112, 219)`
RGB percent	`rgb(57.65% 43.92% 85.88%)`
HSL	`hsl(259.6 59.8% 64.9%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(259.6, 59.8%, 64.9%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(259.6, 48.9%, 85.9%)`
HWB	`hwb(259.6 43.9% 14.1%)`
Nearest name	`mediumpurple`
CMYK	`cmyk(32.9%, 48.9%, 0%, 14.1%)`Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLCh	`oklch(62.691% 0.15803 296.672)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(62.691% 0.07094 -0.14121)`
CIE LCh	`lch(54.45% 59.733 302.059)`
CIE Lab	`lab(54.45% 31.706 -50.624)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.5552 0.4446 0.8332)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.5076 0.4053 0.8084)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 0.2918 0.162 0.7084)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.3061 0.2291 0.6983)`

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGB	`vec3(0.576, 0.439, 0.859)`Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linear	`vec3(0.292, 0.162, 0.708)`Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGB	`vec4(0.576, 0.439, 0.859, 1.0)`
GLSL vec4 — linear	`vec4(0.292, 0.162, 0.708, 1.0)`
GLSL ivec3	`ivec3(147, 112, 219)`
HLSL float3 — sRGB	`float3(0.576, 0.439, 0.859)`
HLSL float3 — linear	`float3(0.292, 0.162, 0.708)`
HLSL float4 — sRGB	`float4(0.576, 0.439, 0.859, 1.0)`
HLSL half4 — sRGB	`half4(0.576, 0.439, 0.859, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3f — sRGB	`vec3f(0.576, 0.439, 0.859)`
WGSL vec4f — sRGB	`vec4f(0.576, 0.439, 0.859, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3<f32> — linear	`vec3<f32>(0.292, 0.162, 0.708)`

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Color	`new Color(0.576f, 0.439f, 0.859f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(147, 112, 219, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(0.2918f, 0.162f, 0.7084f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(147, 112, 219, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(0.576, 0.439, 0.859, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFF9370DB)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(147, 112, 219)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 0.576, green: 0.439, blue: 0.859)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 0.576, green: 0.439, blue: 0.859, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0x9370DB`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFF9370DB`
Array 0–1	`[0.576, 0.439, 0.859]`
Array 0–255	`[147, 112, 219]`
Decimal integer	`9662683`

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

Pairing	WCAG 2 ratio	Level	APCA	Suitable for
Medium Purple on white	3.76:1	AA Large	Lc 65	Headings and large text
Medium Purple on black	5.58:1	AA	Lc 37	Non-text elements only

Medium Purple text on a white background

Medium Purple text on a black background

White text on Medium Purple

Black text on Medium Purple

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

50#f9f3ff
100#f0e7ff
200#e1d2ff
300#ceb4ff
400#b393fd
500#9673de
600#7c5abf
700#6544a1
800#513286
900#40236f
950#260c4a

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

Tint 1#a488e2
Tint 2#b5a0e9
Tint 3#c7b8f0
Tint 4#d9d0f5
Tint 5#ece7fb
Shade 1#7256ac
Shade 2#533e7e
Shade 3#362754
Shade 4#1b122d
Shade 5#04020b

Colours that work with Medium Purple

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

#839300
#cd6a00
#00a286
#5c82e7
#b861ba

Closest CSS names

mediumpurpleexact match
mediumslateblueΔEok 0.054
mediumorchidΔEok 0.083
slateblueΔEok 0.090
cornflowerblueΔEok 0.104
royalblueΔEok 0.116