CSS named colour

Pale Violet Red

#db7093

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

RGB: rgb(219 112 147)
HSL: 340°, 60%, 65%
OKLCh: 67.8% 0.138 0.7

Pale Violet Red in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#db7093`
RGB	`rgb(219 112 147)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(219, 112, 147)`
RGB percent	`rgb(85.88% 43.92% 57.65%)`
HSL	`hsl(340.4 59.8% 64.9%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(340.4, 59.8%, 64.9%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(340.4, 48.9%, 85.9%)`
HWB	`hwb(340.4 43.9% 14.1%)`
Nearest name	`palevioletred`
CMYK	`cmyk(0%, 48.9%, 32.9%, 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(67.792% 0.13822 0.681)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(67.792% 0.13821 0.00164)`
CIE LCh	`lch(60.91% 45.416 1.529)`
CIE Lab	`lab(60.91% 45.4 1.212)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.8044 0.4616 0.5744)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.7129 0.435 0.5277)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 0.7084 0.162 0.2918)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.4027 0.2876 0.3103)`

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

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

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

Unity Color	`new Color(0.859f, 0.439f, 0.576f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(219, 112, 147, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(0.7084f, 0.162f, 0.2918f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(219, 112, 147, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(0.859, 0.439, 0.576, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFFDB7093)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(219, 112, 147)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 0.859, green: 0.439, blue: 0.576)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 0.859, green: 0.439, blue: 0.576, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0xDB7093`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFFDB7093`
Array 0–1	`[0.859, 0.439, 0.576]`
Array 0–255	`[219, 112, 147]`
Decimal integer	`14381203`

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
Pale Violet Red on white	3.11:1	AA Large	Lc 58	Large headings only
Pale Violet Red on black	6.75:1	AA	Lc 44	Non-text elements only

Pale Violet Red text on a white background

Pale Violet Red text on a black background

White text on Pale Violet Red

Black text on Pale Violet Red

Tonal scale

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

50#ffeef6
100#ffe0eb
200#ffc6d9
300#ffa3c1
400#ed83a5
500#cd6387
600#ae4b6d
700#913657
800#772544
900#621735
950#3f021d

Tints and shades

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

Tint 1#e388a4
Tint 2#eba0b6
Tint 3#f1b8c8
Tint 4#f7d0da
Tint 5#fce7ec
Shade 1#ac5672
Shade 2#7e3e53
Shade 3#542736
Shade 4#2d121b
Shade 5#0b0204

Colours that work with Pale Violet Red

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

#00b29c
#8ca434
#33a1e4
#c776bf
#e07462

Closest CSS names

palevioletredexact match
lightcoralΔEok 0.068
hotpinkΔEok 0.081
indianredΔEok 0.082
rosybrownΔEok 0.089
salmonΔEok 0.090