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Pictured: Pansy purple
rgb(120, 24, 74)
#78184A

Pansy Purple #78184A RGB Color Code

Pansy Purple (#78184A) is a moderately saturated, dark red. In RGB it is made of 47% red, 9% green and 29% blue (R 120, G 24, B 74). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 329Β°, 67% saturation and 28% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.051, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 80% magenta, 38% yellow and 53% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a warm color. It goes well with cool blues and greens for contrast. For a matching look, use nearby warm tones.

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Pansy Purple color codes

#78184A in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #78184A Valid CSS
RGB rgb(120, 24, 74) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(329, 67%, 28%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(329, 80%, 47%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(329 9% 53%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 80%, 38%, 53%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(39% 0.1376 353.98) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(39% 0.1368 -0.0144) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(27.43% 43.9 -4.91) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(27.43% 44.17 353.61) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.4316 0.1287 0.2854) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.0931 0.0514 0.0698) Valid CSS
Decimal 7870538 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.0514. Nearest web-safe color: #660033.

Mix Pansy Purple with other colors

See what #78184A 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.

PaintPansy Purple and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightPansy Purple and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintPansy Purple and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalPansy Purple blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Pansy 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--pansy-purple: #78184A;
Sass variable$pansy-purple: #78184A;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-pansy-purple: #78184A; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'pansy-purple': '#78184A' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.471, green: 0.094, blue: 0.29)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.471, green: 0.094, blue: 0.29, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="pansy_purple">#FF78184A</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF78184A)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #78184A (10.35:1, AAA). Here is how #78184A does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
10.35:1 on white
APCA Lc 93
AAA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.03:1 on black
APCA Lc -10
Fails AATry #B6527F

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 Pansy Purple

#78184A 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

#78184A 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 Pansy Purple

Named after a garden flower

Pansy purple takes its name from the deep purple of some garden pansies. The word pansy comes from the French pensΓ©e, which means thought. It came into English in the 1400s, when people saw the flower as a sign of remembrance.

On record since 1814

Maerz and Paul's A Dictionary of Color of 1930 says pansy purple was first used as a color name in English in 1814. The name also appears in Robert Ridgway's Color Standards and Color Nomenclature of 1912, a color guide for naturalists. The code #78184A is credited to the ISCC-NBS dictionary of color names, which puts pansy purple in its deep purplish red group. You can see it in the Wikipedia article on shades of purple.

Closer to wine than to violet

Despite the word purple, it leans red, with a hue near 329 degrees. Good neighbors are boysenberry, which is a bit lighter, and Tyrian purple, which is darker. White text on pansy purple is very easy to read, at 10.35 to 1.

Pansy Purple in a user interface

A sample app screen with #78184A as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #78184A as it is. On the dark theme, #78184A is too hard to read as text (1.72:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #C35F8B there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Pansy Purple

These schemes turn the hue of #78184A 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#78184A#187846

Analogous

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

Open palette
#761878this#78184A#78181A

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#78184A#4A7818#184A78

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#78184A#1A7818#187876

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#78184A#784618#187846#184A78

Square

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

Open palette
this#78184A#787618#187846#181A78

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#551134#9A1F5F#D73589#E47AB2#F2BFDA

Gradients with Pansy Purple

Four CSS gradients made from #78184A. 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, #E7D0D8, #78184A);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #78184A, #1D020E);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #761878, #78184A, #78181A);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #78184A, #6B513B, #4A7818);

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Shades, tints and tones of Pansy 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)

Pansy Purple sits at step 800. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF3F7
  2. 100
    FFE5EE
  3. 200
    FFC9DE
  4. 300
    FAA2C6
  5. 400
    E27FA9
  6. 500
    C45F8C
  7. 600
    A54571
  8. 700
    87315A
  9. 800
    78184A
  10. 900
    501A33
  11. 950
    2F121F

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #78184A in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 4004 Claret violet#691639, very close (Ξ”E 4.2)Tailwind CSSpink-900 #831843, very close (Ξ”E 2.8)CSS color namesmaroon #800000, close (Ξ”E 9.1)

Ξ”E 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 (Ξ”E in OKLab). Browse all shades of red or search the color library.