CSS named colour

Medium Violet Red

#c71585

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

RGB: rgb(199 21 133)
HSL: 322°, 81%, 43%
OKLCh: 55.3% 0.222 349.7

Medium Violet Red in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#c71585`
RGB	`rgb(199 21 133)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(199, 21, 133)`
RGB percent	`rgb(78.04% 8.24% 52.16%)`
HSL	`hsl(322.2 80.9% 43.1%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(322.2, 80.9%, 43.1%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(322.2, 89.4%, 78%)`
HWB	`hwb(322.2 8.2% 22%)`
Nearest name	`mediumvioletred`
CMYK	`cmyk(0%, 89.4%, 33.2%, 22%)`Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

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

OKLCh	`oklch(55.337% 0.22165 349.687)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(55.337% 0.21807 -0.03968)`
CIE LCh	`lch(45.174% 70.973 348.569)`
CIE Lab	`lab(45.174% 69.566 -14.066)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.716 0.1763 0.5105)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.6043 0.1837 0.457)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 0.5711 0.0075 0.2346)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.2805 0.1437 0.2349)`

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

GLSL vec3 — sRGB	`vec3(0.78, 0.082, 0.522)`Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linear	`vec3(0.571, 0.007, 0.235)`Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGB	`vec4(0.78, 0.082, 0.522, 1.0)`
GLSL vec4 — linear	`vec4(0.571, 0.007, 0.235, 1.0)`
GLSL ivec3	`ivec3(199, 21, 133)`
HLSL float3 — sRGB	`float3(0.78, 0.082, 0.522)`
HLSL float3 — linear	`float3(0.571, 0.007, 0.235)`
HLSL float4 — sRGB	`float4(0.78, 0.082, 0.522, 1.0)`
HLSL half4 — sRGB	`half4(0.78, 0.082, 0.522, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3f — sRGB	`vec3f(0.78, 0.082, 0.522)`
WGSL vec4f — sRGB	`vec4f(0.78, 0.082, 0.522, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3<f32> — linear	`vec3<f32>(0.571, 0.007, 0.235)`

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

Unity Color	`new Color(0.78f, 0.082f, 0.522f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(199, 21, 133, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(0.5711f, 0.0075f, 0.2346f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(199, 21, 133, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(0.78, 0.082, 0.522, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFFC71585)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(199, 21, 133)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 0.78, green: 0.082, blue: 0.522)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 0.78, green: 0.082, blue: 0.522, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0xC71585`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFFC71585`
Array 0–1	`[0.78, 0.082, 0.522]`
Array 0–255	`[199, 21, 133]`
Decimal integer	`13047173`

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 Violet Red on white	5.42:1	AA	Lc 75	Body text, 18px and up
Medium Violet Red on black	3.87:1	AA Large	Lc 27	Not usable for text

Medium Violet Red text on a white background

Medium Violet Red text on a black background

White text on Medium Violet Red

Black text on Medium Violet Red

Tonal scale

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

50#ffedfb
100#ffdef3
200#ffc4e5
300#ff9dd3
400#ff64bd
500#e53d9f
600#c41c83
700#a4006b
800#870056
900#6d0044
950#430027

Tints and shades

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

Tint 1#d54f99
Tint 2#e175ac
Tint 3#ec99c1
Tint 4#f4bbd5
Tint 5#fbddea
Shade 1#9c0e67
Shade 2#72074b
Shade 3#4c0330
Shade 4#280117
Shade 5#090004

Colours that work with Medium Violet Red

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

#008a66
#797800
#007fb0
#a733c1
#d50138

Closest CSS names

mediumvioletredexact match
deeppinkΔEok 0.113
crimsonΔEok 0.118
darkmagentaΔEok 0.134
mediumorchidΔEok 0.134
indianredΔEok 0.141