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Pictured: Dark lavender, the closest color we have a photo of (#734F96)
rgb(111, 86, 152)
#6F5698

Passion Flower #6F5698 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Passion Flower (#6F5698) is a moderately saturated, medium purple. In RGB it is made of 44% red, 34% green and 60% blue (R 111, G 86, B 152). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 263Β°, 28% saturation and 47% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.123, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 27% cyan, 43% magenta, 0% yellow and 40% 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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Passion Flower color codes

#6F5698 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #6F5698 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(111, 86, 152) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(263, 28%, 47%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(263, 43%, 60%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(263 34% 40%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(27%, 43%, 0%, 40%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(50.73% 0.1049 300.16) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(50.73% 0.0527 -0.0907) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(41.39% 21.57 -32.72) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(41.39% 39.19 303.39) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.4199 0.3411 0.5797) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1555 0.123 0.3126) Valid CSS
Decimal 7296664 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1230. Nearest web-safe color: #666699.

Mix Passion Flower with other colors

See what #6F5698 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.

Use Passion Flower 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--passion-flower: #6F5698;
Sass variable$passion-flower: #6F5698;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-passion-flower: #6F5698; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'passion-flower': '#6F5698' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.435, green: 0.337, blue: 0.596)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.435, green: 0.337, blue: 0.596, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="passion_flower">#FF6F5698</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF6F5698)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #6F5698 (6.07:1, AA). Here is how #6F5698 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
6.07:1 on white
APCA Lc 80
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.46:1 on black
APCA Lc -22
AA LargeTry #8168AC

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 Passion Flower

#6F5698 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

#6F5698 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.

Passion Flower in a user interface

A sample app screen with #6F5698 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #6F5698 as it is. On the dark theme, #6F5698 is too hard to read as text (2.93:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #8D74B9 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Passion Flower

These schemes turn the hue of #6F5698 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

Analogous

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

Open palette

Triadic

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

Open palette

Split complementary

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

Open palette

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette

Square

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

Open palette

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette

Gradients with Passion Flower

Four CSS gradients made from #6F5698. 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, #E0DCEB, #6F5698);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #6F5698, #1A1227);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #565E98, #6F5698, #905698);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #6F5698, #83647A, #986F56);

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Shades, tints and tones of Passion Flower

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)

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

  1. 50
    F8F5FF
  2. 100
    F0E9FF
  3. 200
    E1D2FF
  4. 300
    C9B5F1
  5. 400
    AD95D8
  6. 500
    9077BC
  7. 600
    6F5698
  8. 700
    5E4882
  9. 800
    4A3768
  10. 900
    36284D
  11. 950
    20192C

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #6F5698 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

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 purple or search the color library.