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Pictured: Dark violet, the closest color we have a photo of (#9400D3)
rgb(173, 3, 222)
#AD03DE

Vibrant Purple #AD03DE RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Vibrant Purple (#AD03DE) is a very vivid, medium purple. In RGB it is made of 68% red, 1% green and 87% blue (R 173, G 3, B 222). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 287°, 97% saturation and 44% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.142, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 22% cyan, 99% magenta, 0% yellow and 13% 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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Vibrant Purple color codes

#AD03DE in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #AD03DE Valid CSS
RGB rgb(173, 3, 222) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(287, 97%, 44%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(287, 99%, 87%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(287 1% 13%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(22%, 99%, 0%, 13%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(55.95% 0.2743 315.08) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(55.95% 0.1943 -0.1937) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(43.93% 75.54 -68.97) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(43.93% 102.29 317.6) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.6212 0.1271 0.8391) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.3045 0.1422 0.7025) Valid CSS
Decimal 11338718 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1422. Nearest web-safe color: #9900CC.

Mix Vibrant Purple with other colors

See what #AD03DE 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.

PaintVibrant Purple and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightVibrant Purple and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintVibrant Purple and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalVibrant Purple blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Vibrant 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--vibrant-purple: #AD03DE;
Sass variable$vibrant-purple: #AD03DE;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-vibrant-purple: #AD03DE; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'vibrant-purple': '#AD03DE' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.678, green: 0.012, blue: 0.871)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.678, green: 0.012, blue: 0.871, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="vibrant_purple">#FFAD03DE</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFAD03DE)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #AD03DE (5.46:1, AA). Here is how #AD03DE does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.46:1 on white
APCA Lc 75
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.84:1 on black
APCA Lc -27
AA LargeTry #B923EB

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 Vibrant Purple

#AD03DE 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

#AD03DE 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 Vibrant Purple

A name picked by comic readers

The code #AD03DE comes from the xkcd color survey. In 2010 the web comic xkcd showed readers random colors and asked them to type a name for each. The answers came from about 222,500 user sessions. The survey results list 954 common names with one code each, and Vibrant Purple is on that list.

Wikipedia shows another code

Wikipedia's color lists use the same name for #AA00FF, a value taken from the Color-Name.com website. So the site's HEX does not match Wikipedia. The survey color is a little darker and leans a bit more toward pink. On the color wheel it falls between vivid violet and psychedelic purple.

White text on #AD03DE has a ratio of 5.46 to 1, so it passes for normal text. The contrast checker shows how it does with any text color.

Vibrant Purple in a user interface

A sample app screen with #AD03DE as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #AD03DE as it is. On the dark theme, #AD03DE is too hard to read as text (3.25:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #C637F9 there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Vibrant Purple

These schemes turn the hue of #AD03DE 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#AD03DE#34DE03

Analogous

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

Open palette
#3F03DEthis#AD03DE#DE03A2

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#AD03DE#DEAD03#03DEAD

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#AD03DE#A2DE03#03DE3F

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#AD03DE#DE0334#34DE03#03DEAD

Square

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

Open palette
this#AD03DE#DE3F03#34DE03#03A2DE

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#4E0165#8E02B6#C710FC#DA62FD#EDB4FE

Gradients with Vibrant Purple

Four CSS gradients made from #AD03DE. 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, #F0D8FC, #AD03DE);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #AD03DE, #2D003D);

Edit in the gradient generator

Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3F03DE, #AD03DE, #DE03A2);

Edit in the gradient generator

Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #AD03DE, #C3799D, #DEAD03);

Edit in the gradient generator

Shades, tints and tones of Vibrant 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)

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

  1. 50
    FBF4FF
  2. 100
    F7E6FF
  3. 200
    EFCCFF
  4. 300
    E3A4FF
  5. 400
    D56EFF
  6. 500
    C130F3
  7. 600
    AD03DE
  8. 700
    8100A6
  9. 800
    650084
  10. 900
    4C0063
  11. 950
    2E053C

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #AD03DE in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 4008 Signal violet#904684, rough match (ΔE 16.6)Tailwind CSSfuchsia-600 #C026D3, close (ΔE 5.1)CSS color namesdarkviolet #9400D3, close (ΔE 5.3)

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.