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Muted Purple #A178A9

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HEX: #A178A9
RGB: 161, 120, 169
HSL: 290°, 22%, 57%
CMYK: 5%, 29%, 0%, 34%

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Muted Purple

#A178A9

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Accessibility

How readable text is on this colour, measured against WCAG 2.2.

White text: 3.64:1 AA large text only
Black text: 5.77:1 AA

Use black text on this colour — it reaches 5.77:1 and clears AA at any size.

AA: 4.5:1 for body text, 3:1 for large text and interface elements.
AAA: 7:1 for body text, 4.5:1 for large text.

Color Variations & Tints

The same hue, lighter and darker. Each one has its own page.

#C0A4C5

Lightness: 75%

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#B695BC

Lightness: 71%

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#AB86B2

Lightness: 67%

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#A178A9

Lightness: 57%

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#896690

Lightness: 56%

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#725478

Lightness: 49%

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#5B4360

Lightness: 42%

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Color Harmonies

Six established ways to build a palette around #A178A9. Click any swatch to copy its value, or open it to see the full breakdown.

Complementary

The colour directly opposite on the wheel.

#A178A9 This color

#81A979

Use it when: Highest possible contrast between two hues. Use it when one element has to stand out against everything else: a call-to-action button, a highlight, a single focal point.
Watch out: Side by side at full saturation the edges appear to vibrate. Give one colour far less area than the other, or take saturation out of one of them.

Split-complementary

Instead of the opposite colour, the two next to it.

#A178A9 This color

#99A979

#79A989

Use it when: Almost the contrast of a complementary pair, but noticeably calmer. A good default when complementary feels too harsh: one dominant colour, two accents.
Watch out: The two accents are close to each other. Keep them apart in the layout, or one will read as a mistake.

Analogous

Direct neighbours on the wheel.

#8979A9

#A178A9 This color

#A97999

Use it when: Naturally harmonious because the colours share undertones. Works well for backgrounds, gradients and calm interfaces where nothing should shout.
Watch out: Contrast between them is low. Do not rely on hue alone to separate interactive elements - vary lightness as well.

Triadic

Three hues at equal distance, 120 degrees apart.

#A178A9 This color

#A9A179

#79A9A1

Use it when: Vivid and balanced at the same time. Suits playful, illustrative work and anything that needs three clearly distinct categories.
Watch out: Three strong colours are hard to balance. Let one dominate and treat the other two as accents, otherwise the result looks restless.

Tetradic

Four hues forming two complementary pairs.

#A178A9 This color

#A98979

#81A979

#7999A9

Use it when: The richest of the classic schemes. Useful when a design genuinely needs four distinct colours, for example a chart with four series.
Watch out: The hardest scheme to control. Choose one lead colour, use the rest sparingly, and watch the balance between warm and cool.

Monochromatic

One hue, stepped through lightness.

#4F3654

#7B5483

#A179A9

#C2A8C7

#E3D7E5

Use it when: Always coherent, because there is only one hue. The natural choice for interface hierarchies, single-series charts and restrained designs.
Watch out: Can read as flat. Add one neutral or a single accent colour wherever something needs to be noticed.

Using this color

The same colour behaves very differently depending on where it sits. The mockups show it leading a design; the cards below state contrast ratios, so you can see at a glance what holds up.

Landing page

Brand ProductPricingAbout

A headline that carries the page

Supporting copy sits underneath, quiet enough to stay out of the way.

Get started Learn more

Good morning

Your dashboard

Balance

1,248.00

White card on the lead colour

The safest pattern in the set: the card carries the text, the colour carries the mood.

Action

Coloured card

A second surface, drawn from the same palette.

Gradients between neighbouring hues stay clean. Across the wheel they pass through a muddy middle - keep those short.

#A178A9 leads; the supporting tones are taken from its own scale, so what you see is one colour doing the whole job.

As a background

5.77:1 passes AA

Heading on this colour

Body text at black, the more readable of the two options.

Fine for body text, though not the most comfortable for long passages.

As a button

Primary action Secondary Subtle

The outlined and subtle variants use #92639C for the label, a darkened version of this colour so the text stays readable.

As text on white

needs adjusting

The colour itself

Adjusted for readability

At its original lightness this colour does not reach the 4.5:1 minimum on white. #92639C keeps the same hue and reaches 4.68:1.

As a section behind cards

Card title

White cards on a coloured band are a safe pattern: the card carries the text, the colour carries the mood.

As an accent

Highlighted notice

A coloured edge draws attention without touching legibility.

Body copy with an inline link in the adjusted shade.

Badge Outline

In a gradient

with its neighbour

with its complement

Neighbouring hues blend smoothly. Complements pass through a muddy middle, so keep that gradient short or add a stop.

How others see this colour

Around one in twelve men and one in two hundred women perceive colour differently. Two shades that look distinct to most people can collapse into one for them - which is why meaning should never rest on colour alone.

Normal vision

#A178A9

Protanopia

#7383AB

about 1% of men

Deuteranopia

#7C88A7

about 1% of men

Tritanopia

#A27D89

rare, affects both sexes

A scale you can ship

Ten steps from this colour, spaced in OKLab so each one looks as far from its neighbour as the next. Take it as a Tailwind palette, CSS variables, SCSS or JSON.

50 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900

tailwind.config.js

colors: {
  'muted-purple': {
    '50': '#fdf1ff',
    '100': '#f9e0fe',
    '200': '#eccdf2',
    '300': '#d7b3df',
    '400': '#bb93c3',
    '500': '#a178a9',
    '600': '#86608e',
    '700': '#6a4970',
    '800': '#4e3553',
    '900': '#332436',
  },
}

CSS variables

:root {
  --muted-purple-50: #fdf1ff;
  --muted-purple-100: #f9e0fe;
  --muted-purple-200: #eccdf2;
  --muted-purple-300: #d7b3df;
  --muted-purple-400: #bb93c3;
  --muted-purple-500: #a178a9;
  --muted-purple-600: #86608e;
  --muted-purple-700: #6a4970;
  --muted-purple-800: #4e3553;
  --muted-purple-900: #332436;
}

SCSS

$muted-purple-50: #fdf1ff;
$muted-purple-100: #f9e0fe;
$muted-purple-200: #eccdf2;
$muted-purple-300: #d7b3df;
$muted-purple-400: #bb93c3;
$muted-purple-500: #a178a9;
$muted-purple-600: #86608e;
$muted-purple-700: #6a4970;
$muted-purple-800: #4e3553;
$muted-purple-900: #332436;

JSON

{
    "muted-purple": {
        "50": "#fdf1ff",
        "100": "#f9e0fe",
        "200": "#eccdf2",
        "300": "#d7b3df",
        "400": "#bb93c3",
        "500": "#a178a9",
        "600": "#86608e",
        "700": "#6a4970",
        "800": "#4e3553",
        "900": "#332436"
    }
}

Every value for this colour

This colour is the even blend of #FFF0FF and #430053.

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Web safe

sRGB, white point D65, 2° observer. Hunter-Lab follows its classic definition on illuminant C.

Use it in code

The same colour in the notations you are likely to need.

CSS

:root {
  --muted-purple: #a178a9;
}

.element {
  color: #a178a9;
  background-color: rgb(161 120 169 / 10%);
}

Tailwind

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'muted-purple': '#a178a9',
    },
  },
}

SCSS

$muted-purple: #a178a9;
$muted-purple-light: lighten($muted-purple, 15%);
$muted-purple-dark: darken($muted-purple, 15%);

Swift

Color(red: 0.631, green: 0.471, blue: 0.663)
// UIKit
UIColor(red: 0.631, green: 0.471, blue: 0.663, alpha: 1.0)

Android

<!-- colors.xml -->
<color name="muted_purple">#A178A9</color>

// Compose
val MutedPurple = Color(0xFFA178A9)

Other

hsl(290, 22%, 57%)
rgb(161, 120, 169)
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