Bright Violet #AD0AFD

About this color

#AD0AFD is a medium-dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 59%, its chroma 0.296 and its hue 308°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Bright Violet. White text reads best on it, at 4.95:1.

Colors that go with Bright Violet

Matches found by rotating Bright Violet around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Bright Violet

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Bright Violet, closest first.

No curated palette has a color within ΔE 0.06 of Bright Violet yet.

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Bright Violet, with their ΔE distance.

• Electric Purple #AA23FF ΔE 0.014
• Neon Purple #BC13FE ΔE 0.031
• Bright Purple #BE03FD ΔE 0.034
• Vivid Purple #9900FA ΔE 0.041
• Vibrant Purple #AD03DE ΔE 0.048
• Hot Purple #CB00F5 ΔE 0.062
• Blue Violet #8A2BE2 ΔE 0.076
• Dark Violet #9400D3 ΔE 0.079

More about Bright Violet

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Bright Violet

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 2 parts purple
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #944DB4, a difference of ΔE 0.137 from Bright Violet. Bright Violet is more vivid than these paints can mix, so start from a ready-made purple paint and adjust it.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Bright Violet in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Bright Violet

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F9F2FF

   oklch(97% 0.019 309.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F1E3FE

   oklch(93.5% 0.039 308.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E7CDFF

   oklch(88.6% 0.073 308.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #D7AAFF

   oklch(80.9% 0.126 308)

5. Step 400

   400

   #C477FF

   oklch(70.8% 0.201 308.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #B645FF

   oklch(63.1% 0.262 308.2)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #AD0AFD

   oklch(58.5% 0.296 308.2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #8900C9

   oklch(49.1% 0.25 308.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #7000A7

   oklch(42.6% 0.218 308)

10. Step 900

    900

    #5C1187

    oklch(37.7% 0.177 308.2)

11. Step 950

    950

    #360F4F

    oklch(27.1% 0.112 308.4)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Bright Violet with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.