CSS named colour

Dark Orchid

#9932cc

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

RGB: rgb(153 50 204)
HSL: 280°, 61%, 50%
OKLCh: 54.1% 0.227 311.5

Dark Orchid in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#9932cc`
RGB	`rgb(153 50 204)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(153, 50, 204)`
RGB percent	`rgb(60% 19.61% 80%)`
HSL	`hsl(280.1 60.6% 49.8%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(280.1, 60.6%, 49.8%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(280.1, 75.5%, 80%)`
HWB	`hwb(280.1 19.6% 20%)`
Nearest name	`darkorchid`
CMYK	`cmyk(25%, 75.5%, 0%, 20%)`Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

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

OKLCh	`oklch(54.111% 0.22724 311.509)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(54.111% 0.1506 -0.17017)`
CIE LCh	`lch(42.815% 85.253 314.676)`
CIE Lab	`lab(42.815% 59.941 -60.623)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.5542 0.2249 0.7721)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.4753 0.2064 0.7399)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 0.3185 0.0319 0.6038)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.2518 0.1341 0.5839)`

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

GLSL vec3 — sRGB	`vec3(0.6, 0.196, 0.8)`Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linear	`vec3(0.319, 0.032, 0.604)`Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGB	`vec4(0.6, 0.196, 0.8, 1.0)`
GLSL vec4 — linear	`vec4(0.319, 0.032, 0.604, 1.0)`
GLSL ivec3	`ivec3(153, 50, 204)`
HLSL float3 — sRGB	`float3(0.6, 0.196, 0.8)`
HLSL float3 — linear	`float3(0.319, 0.032, 0.604)`
HLSL float4 — sRGB	`float4(0.6, 0.196, 0.8, 1.0)`
HLSL half4 — sRGB	`half4(0.6, 0.196, 0.8, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3f — sRGB	`vec3f(0.6, 0.196, 0.8)`
WGSL vec4f — sRGB	`vec4f(0.6, 0.196, 0.8, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3<f32> — linear	`vec3<f32>(0.319, 0.032, 0.604)`

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

Unity Color	`new Color(0.6f, 0.196f, 0.8f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(153, 50, 204, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(0.3185f, 0.0319f, 0.6038f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(153, 50, 204, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(0.6, 0.196, 0.8, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFF9932CC)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(153, 50, 204)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 0.6, green: 0.196, blue: 0.8)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 0.6, green: 0.196, blue: 0.8, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0x9932CC`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFF9932CC`
Array 0–1	`[0.6, 0.196, 0.8]`
Array 0–255	`[153, 50, 204]`
Decimal integer	`10040012`

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
Dark Orchid on white	5.70:1	AA	Lc 77	Body text, 18px and up
Dark Orchid on black	3.68:1	AA Large	Lc 24	Not usable for text

Dark Orchid text on a white background

Dark Orchid text on a black background

White text on Dark Orchid

Black text on Dark Orchid

Tonal scale

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

50#fff0ff
100#fce2ff
200#f2caff
300#e6a8ff
400#d678ff
500#b754ed
600#9b39cc
700#8021ad
800#690891
900#550079
950#34004e

Tints and shades

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

Tint 1#aa5cd7
Tint 2#bb7fe0
Tint 3#cc9fe9
Tint 4#ddbff2
Tint 5#eedff9
Shade 1#7725a0
Shade 2#571975
Shade 3#380d4e
Shade 4#1c0429
Shade 5#050009

Colours that work with Dark Orchid

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

#478100
#9e5e00
#00837f
#624dec
#bd0f94

Closest CSS names

darkorchidexact match
darkvioletΔEok 0.043
bluevioletΔEok 0.049
mediumorchidΔEok 0.093
slateblueΔEok 0.105
darkmagentaΔEok 0.116