Rebecca Purple #663399

Rebecca Purple color (#663399)

Rebecca Purple is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword rebeccapurple anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #663399, which is rgb(102, 51, 153) in RGB.

It is a dark, vivid cool color with a hue angle of 270° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 44% in OKLCH. On a rebecca purple background, white text gives the higher contrast at 8.40:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Rebecca Purple color codes

CSS name rebeccapurple
HEX #663399
HEX (8-digit) #663399FF
RGB rgb(102, 51, 153)
HSL hsl(270, 50%, 40%)
HSV / HSB hsv(270, 67%, 60%)
OKLCH oklch(44% 0.1603 303.4)
CMYK cmyk(33.3%, 66.7%, 0%, 40%)

Contrast with white and black

WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for rebecca purple used as text and as a background.

Aa Sample text
Rebecca Purple text on white
8.40:1 WCAG Lc 88.4 APCA Passes AA
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Rebecca Purple text on black
2.49:1 WCAG Lc -13.8 APCA Fails AA
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White text on rebecca purple
8.40:1 WCAG Lc -93 APCA Passes AA
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Black text on rebecca purple
2.49:1 WCAG Lc 15.6 APCA Fails AA

Tints and shades of rebecca purple

Tints mix rebecca purple 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.

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Colors that go with rebecca purple

Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.

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Rebecca Purple with color blindness

Approximately how rebecca purple appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.

Using rebecca purple in CSS

.element {
  color: rebeccapurple;
  background-color: #663399;
  border-color: rgb(102 51 153 / 50%);
  outline-color: oklch(44% 0.1603 303.4);
}

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