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Pictured: Electric purple, the closest color we have a photo of (#BF00FF)
rgb(188, 19, 254)
#BC13FE

Neon Purple #BC13FE RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Neon Purple (#BC13FE) is a very vivid, medium purple. In RGB it is made of 74% red, 7% green and 100% blue (R 188, G 19, B 254). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 283°, 99% saturation and 54% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.183, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 26% cyan, 93% magenta, 0% yellow and 0% 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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Neon Purple color codes

#BC13FE in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #BC13FE Valid CSS
RGB rgb(188, 19, 254) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(283, 99%, 54%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(283, 93%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(283 7% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(26%, 93%, 0%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(60.83% 0.2973 312.11) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(60.83% 0.1994 -0.2206) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(49.09% 80.68 -78.49) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(49.09% 112.56 315.79) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.6761 0.1641 0.96) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.3886 0.1831 0.9526) Valid CSS
Decimal 12325886 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1831. Nearest web-safe color: #CC00FF.

Mix Neon Purple with other colors

See what #BC13FE 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.

PaintNeon Purple and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightNeon Purple and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintNeon Purple and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalNeon Purple blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Neon Purple 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--neon-purple: #BC13FE;
Sass variable$neon-purple: #BC13FE;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-neon-purple: #BC13FE; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'neon-purple': '#BC13FE' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.737, green: 0.075, blue: 0.996)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.737, green: 0.075, blue: 0.996, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="neon_purple">#FFBC13FE</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFBC13FE)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #BC13FE (4.66:1, AA). Here is how #BC13FE does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.50:1 on white
APCA Lc 69
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.66:1 on black
APCA Lc -33
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 Neon Purple

#BC13FE 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

#BC13FE 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 Neon Purple

More colors for sign tubes

Early neon signs came in only a few colors. Hydrogen gives a purple red glow, and mercury gives blue. Since the 1950s, phosphors first made for color television have added nearly 100 new colors for sign tubes, says the Wikipedia page on neon lighting.

The survey code

#BC13FE is the neon purple from the 2010 xkcd color survey, in which web users typed names for colors they saw. Wikipedia's alphabetical list shows #9457EB instead, a softer lavender purple. Ours is very close to electric purple, #BF00FF. Black text on it scores 4.66 to 1, which passes for normal text, but only just. Try other pairs in the contrast checker.

Neon Purple in a user interface

A sample app screen with #BC13FE as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #BC13FE as it is. On the dark theme, #BC13FE is too hard to read as text (3.94:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #C13AFF there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Neon Purple

These schemes turn the hue of #BC13FE 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#BC13FE#55FE13

Analogous

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

Open palette
#4613FEthis#BC13FE#FE13CB

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#BC13FE#FEBC13#13FEBC

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#BC13FE#CBFE13#13FE47

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#BC13FE#FE1355#55FE13#13FEBC

Square

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

Open palette
this#BC13FE#FE4713#55FE13#13CBFE

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#490066#8501B8#BB0EFE#D260FE#E9B3FF

Gradients with Neon Purple

Four CSS gradients made from #BC13FE. 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, #F2DBFF, #BC13FE);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #BC13FE, #320147);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #4613FE, #BC13FE, #FE13CB);

Edit in the gradient generator

Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #BC13FE, #D987B3, #FEBC13);

Edit in the gradient generator

Shades, tints and tones of Neon Purple

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)

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

  1. 50
    FBF4FF
  2. 100
    F5E6FF
  3. 200
    ECCDFF
  4. 300
    DEA7FF
  5. 400
    CE74FF
  6. 500
    BC13FE
  7. 600
    9D00D6
  8. 700
    7D00AC
  9. 800
    630088
  10. 900
    4A0067
  11. 950
    2D0241

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #BC13FE in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 4008 Signal violet#904684, rough match (ΔE 20.9)Tailwind CSSfuchsia-600 #C026D3, close (ΔE 6.8)CSS color namesdarkorchid #9932CC, close (ΔE 9.7)

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.