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Pictured: Lavender indigo
rgb(148, 87, 235)
#9457EB

Lavender Indigo #9457EB RGB Color Code

Also known as Navy Purple

Lavender Indigo (#9457EB) is a vivid, medium purple. In RGB it is made of 58% red, 34% green and 92% blue (R 148, G 87, B 235). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 265°, 79% saturation and 63% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.191, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 37% cyan, 63% magenta, 0% yellow and 8% 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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Lavender Indigo color codes

#9457EB in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #9457EB Valid CSS
RGB rgb(148, 87, 235) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(265, 79%, 63%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(265, 63%, 92%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(265 34% 8%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(37%, 63%, 0%, 8%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(59.97% 0.2134 298.73) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(59.97% 0.1026 -0.1872) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(50.05% 48.26 -66.64) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(50.05% 82.28 305.91) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.5473 0.3525 0.8903) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.3061 0.1911 0.8068) Valid CSS
Decimal 9721835 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1911. Nearest web-safe color: #9966FF.

Mix Lavender Indigo with other colors

See what #9457EB 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.

PaintLavender Indigo and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightLavender Indigo and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintLavender Indigo and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalLavender Indigo blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Lavender Indigo 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--lavender-indigo: #9457EB;
Sass variable$lavender-indigo: #9457EB;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-lavender-indigo: #9457EB; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'lavender-indigo': '#9457EB' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.58, green: 0.341, blue: 0.922)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.58, green: 0.341, blue: 0.922, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="lavender_indigo">#FF9457EB</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF9457EB)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #9457EB (4.82:1, AA). Here is how #9457EB does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.35:1 on white
APCA Lc 70
AA LargeTry #9254E8
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.82:1 on black
APCA Lc -32
AA

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 Lavender Indigo

#9457EB 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

#9457EB 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 Lavender Indigo

A name from a color sharing site

Lavender indigo has a thin paper trail. Around 2009 and 2010, the Wikipedia article on lavender listed it with the code #9457EB. Its only source was a user page on COLOURlovers, a site where anyone can name and share colors. No paint maker, crayon box or standard stands behind it. The article called it a lavender close to blue violet, and the section was later removed.

A tricky color for text

This medium purple sits right at the edge for readable text. White text on it reaches only 4.35 to 1, just under the 4.5 to 1 that normal body text needs. Black text gets 4.82 to 1, so it passes, if only just. Before using lavender indigo behind text, run your pair through the contrast checker. For a darker, safer purple, look at royal purple.

Lavender Indigo in a user interface

A sample app screen with #9457EB as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #9457EB as it is. On the light theme, #9457EB is too hard to read as text (4.35:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #9254E8 there (4.51:1). On the dark theme, #9457EB is too hard to read as text (4.08:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #9B5FF3 there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Lavender Indigo

These schemes turn the hue of #9457EB 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#9457EB#AEEB57

Analogous

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

Open palette
#5764EBthis#9457EB#DE57EB

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#9457EB#EB9457#57EB94

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#9457EB#EBDE57#64EB57

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#9457EB#EB57AE#AEEB57#57EB94

Square

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

Open palette
this#9457EB#EB5764#AEEB57#57EBDE

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#2C0B5B#5014A5#7527E5#A471EE#D3BBF7

Gradients with Lavender Indigo

Four CSS gradients made from #9457EB. 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, #E8DFFE, #9457EB);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #9457EB, #261241);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #5764EB, #9457EB, #DE57EB);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #9457EB, #BC7EAD, #EB9457);

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Shades, tints and tones of Lavender Indigo

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)

Lavender Indigo sits at step 500. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F8F5FF
  2. 100
    EFE9FF
  3. 200
    E0D2FF
  4. 300
    CAB1FF
  5. 400
    B387FF
  6. 500
    9457EB
  7. 600
    7F41D1
  8. 700
    672BAF
  9. 800
    511E8E
  10. 900
    3B1669
  11. 950
    23113C

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #9457EB in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 4005 Blue lilac#83639D, rough match (ΔE 13.0)Tailwind CSSviolet-500 #8B5CF6, very close (ΔE 2.4)CSS color namesmediumslateblue #7B68EE, close (ΔE 5.1)

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.