Orchid #DA70D6

About this color

#DA70D6 is a medium-light, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 70%, its chroma 0.181 and its hue 329°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Orchid. Black text reads best on it, at 7.26:1.

Colors that go with Orchid

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

Color palettes with Orchid

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

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

Similar named colors

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

• Purply Pink #F075E6 ΔE 0.046
• Lavender Pink #DD85D7 ΔE 0.047
• Pale Magenta #D767AD ΔE 0.060
• Violet #EE82EE ΔE 0.060
• Light Purple #BF77F6 ΔE 0.066
• Candy Pink #FF63E9 ΔE 0.072
• Easter Purple #C071FE ΔE 0.076
• Light Magenta #FA5FF7 ΔE 0.079

More about Orchid

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Orchid

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 pink
• 1 part purple

Recipe result: #C779BC, a difference of ΔE 0.056 from Orchid. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Orchid 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 Orchid

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 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FCF2FB

   oklch(97.1% 0.016 328.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F7E3F5

   oklch(93.7% 0.032 329)

3. Step 200

   200

   #F1CBEE

   oklch(88.5% 0.063 328.6)

4. Step 300

   300

   #E9A6E5

   oklch(80.9% 0.113 328.6)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #DA70D6

   oklch(70.2% 0.181 328.7)

6. Step 500

   500

   #CF43CD

   oklch(63.1% 0.231 328.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #BB08B9

   oklch(55.6% 0.252 328.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #9E009D

   oklch(49% 0.225 328.7)

9. Step 800

   800

   #820381

   oklch(42.6% 0.193 328.7)

10. Step 900

    900

    #691568

    oklch(37.7% 0.151 328.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #3E0F3D

    oklch(27% 0.096 328.7)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Orchid 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.