Bright Purple Color Codes

Bright Purple is a mid-tone, vivid purple with the hex code #BE03FD, RGB values of 190, 3, 253 and an HSL value of hsl(285, 98%, 50%).

HEX	#BE03FD
RGB	190, 3, 253
HSL	hsl(285, 98%, 50%)
HSV	285°, 99%, 99%
CMYK	25%, 99%, 0%, 1%
LAB	49.62, 88.67, -77.53
CIELCHuv	49.62, 131.87, 288.51°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 2592 C ΔE 39.2 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: darkviolet ΔE 17.5

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Bright Purple Color Hex Code

The Bright Purple color hex code is #BE03FD. Those six digits are three pairs, BE for red, 03 for green and FD for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#BE03FD

Bright Purple Color RGB Code

The Bright Purple RGB code is rgb(190, 3, 253). Blue carries the most light at 253 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(190, 3, 253)

Bright Purple Color HSV Code

The Bright Purple HSV code is 285°, 99%, 99%. Read it as a hue of 285 degrees, 99% saturation and 99% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

285°, 99%, 99%

Bright Purple Color CIELChuv Code

The Bright Purple CIELCHuv code is 49.62, 131.87, 288.51°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 50 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 132 is how far it sits from grey.

49.62, 131.87, 288.51°

Tonal scale

What are Bright Purple Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Bright Purple Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #BE03FD. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Half a turn away is #42FD03, a light, vivid green. This is the widest separation the wheel offers, and the reason complementary pairs are the default for anything that must stand out. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

Either side sit #4103FD and #FD03BF, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.

Triadic

#FDBE03 and #03FDBE complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #BFFD03 and #03FD41. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #42FD03, and #FD4103 with #03BFFD. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

4.54:1

4.54

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Black background

4.62:1

4.62

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Bright Purple clears WCAG AA against white at 4.54:1, so it is safe for body copy as well as headings. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 4.62:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.

Check Bright Purple against another color →

Color vision

How Bright Purple looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#9392E0

Bright Purple changes substantially here. ΔE 81.0

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#9AA2D8

Bright Purple changes substantially here. ΔE 95.1

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#BAC5BE

Bright Purple changes substantially here. ΔE 126.4

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#767676

Bright Purple changes substantially here. ΔE 117.8

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Bright Purple reads as #9AA2D8. That is a shift of ΔE 95.1, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. Blues survive red-green deficiency well, which is why so much interface design leans on them. The form to watch here is tritanopia, though at roughly 1 in 10,000 it affects far fewer people. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 126.4. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Bright Purple in code

:root {
  --bright-purple: #BE03FD;
}

.example {
  color: var(--bright-purple);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'bright-purple': '#BE03FD',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let brightPurple = Color(
    red: 0.745,
    green: 0.012,
    blue: 0.992
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="bright_purple">#BE03FD</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const brightPurple = Color(0xFFBE03FD);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Bright Purple Color?

Bright Purple reads as luxury and imagination. It is saturated enough to dominate anything it sits beside, and at 98% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 50 it behaves as a cool color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Bright Purple Color?

The closest CSS keyword is DarkViolet (#9400D3), though it is not a match: Delta-E 17.5 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 2592 C at #930FA5. The name Bright Purple comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Bright Purple Color Made?

On a screen Bright Purple is made by additive light: 190 red, 3 green and 253 blue out of 255, with blue leading and 3 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 25%, 99%, 0%, 1%. Starting from the pure hue at 285 degrees, Bright Purple is close to the pure hue, with little white or black in it.