Medium Orchid color (#BA55D3)
Medium Orchid is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword mediumorchid
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #BA55D3, which is rgb(186, 85, 211) in RGB.
It is a medium, vivid cool color with a hue angle of 288° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 63% in OKLCH. On a medium orchid background, black text gives the higher contrast at 5.32:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Medium Orchid color codes
| CSS name | mediumorchid |
|
|---|---|---|
| HEX | #BA55D3 |
|
| HEX (8-digit) | #BA55D3FF |
|
| RGB | rgb(186, 85, 211) |
|
| HSL | hsl(288, 59%, 58%) |
|
| HSV / HSB | hsv(288, 60%, 83%) |
|
| OKLCH | oklch(62.6% 0.2024 319.2) |
|
| CMYK | cmyk(11.8%, 59.7%, 0%, 17.3%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for medium orchid used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of medium orchid
Tints mix medium orchid with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
Shades
Colors that go with medium orchid
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Medium Orchid with color blindness
Approximately how medium orchid appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using medium orchid in CSS
.element {
color: mediumorchid;
background-color: #ba55d3;
border-color: rgb(186 85 211 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(62.6% 0.2024 319.2);
}Similar named colors
See all shades of purple or browse every CSS color name.