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Pictured: Dark lavender
rgb(115, 79, 150)
#734F96

Dark Lavender #734F96 RGB Color Code

Dark Lavender (#734F96) is a moderately saturated, medium purple. In RGB it is made of 45% red, 31% green and 59% blue (R 115, G 79, B 150). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 270°, 31% saturation and 45% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.114, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 23% cyan, 47% magenta, 0% yellow and 41% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a cool color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Dark Lavender color codes

#734F96 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #734F96 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(115, 79, 150) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(270, 31%, 45%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(270, 47%, 59%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(270 31% 41%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(23%, 47%, 0%, 41%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(49.76% 0.1154 306.03) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(49.76% 0.0679 -0.0933) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(40.03% 26.51 -33.62) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(40.03% 42.81 308.25) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.43 0.3158 0.5715) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1537 0.1144 0.3025) Valid CSS
Decimal 7557014 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1144. Nearest web-safe color: #666699.

Mix Dark Lavender with other colors

See what #734F96 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintDark Lavender and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightDark Lavender and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintDark Lavender and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalDark Lavender blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Dark Lavender in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--dark-lavender: #734F96;
Sass variable$dark-lavender: #734F96;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-dark-lavender: #734F96; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'dark-lavender': '#734F96' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.451, green: 0.31, blue: 0.588)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.451, green: 0.31, blue: 0.588, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="dark_lavender">#FF734F96</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF734F96)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #734F96 (6.39:1, AA). Here is how #734F96 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6.39:1 on white
APCA Lc 82
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.29:1 on black
APCA Lc -20
AA LargeTry #8964AD

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Dark Lavender

#734F96 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#734F96 stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Dark Lavender

The middle stripe of a flag

Around 2010, Wikipedia's lavender article showed #734F96 as dark lavender. It said the color stood for the middle band of the bisexual pride flag, Pantone 258. The activist Michael Page designed that flag. It was first shown on December 5, 1998, at the first birthday party of BiCafe. The flag has a pink band on top, a blue band at the bottom and a purple band in the middle fifth.

Not quite the flag color

Today the bisexual pride flag article gives Pantone 258 as #9B4F96. The blue and green values match #734F96, but the red value is 155 instead of 115. So the flag's purple is brighter and pinker than dark lavender.

Dark lavender is much deeper than floral lavender, the color of the flower. It is close to royal purple. White text on it reaches a contrast ratio of 6.39 to 1.

Dark Lavender in a user interface

A sample app screen with #734F96 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #734F96 as it is. On the dark theme, #734F96 is too hard to read as text (2.78:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #9570BA there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Dark Lavender

These schemes turn the hue of #734F96 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#734F96#72964F

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#504F96this#734F96#964F96

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#734F96#96734F#4F9673

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#734F96#96964F#4F9650

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#734F96#964F72#72964F#4F9673

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#734F96#96504F#72964F#4F9696

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#332343#5D4079#8660AB#B097C8#D9CDE5

Gradients with Dark Lavender

Four CSS gradients made from #734F96. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #E1DAEA, #734F96);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #734F96, #1B1026);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #504F96, #734F96, #964F96);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #734F96, #836377, #96734F);

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Shades, tints and tones of Dark Lavender

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Dark Lavender sits at step 600. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F9F4FF
  2. 100
    F2E8FF
  3. 200
    E6D0FF
  4. 300
    D0B1F2
  5. 400
    B491DA
  6. 500
    9773BD
  7. 600
    734F96
  8. 700
    644483
  9. 800
    4F3469
  10. 900
    39254D
  11. 950
    22172D

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #734F96 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 4008 Signal violet#904684, close (ΔE 6.1)Tailwind CSSfuchsia-800 #86198F, rough match (ΔE 10.1)CSS color namesrebeccapurple #663399, close (ΔE 7.3)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of purple or search the color library.