Mauve Color Codes
Mauve is a light, vivid violet with the hex code #E0B0FF, RGB values of 224, 176, 255 and an HSL value of hsl(276, 100%, 85%).
| HEX | #E0B0FF |
|---|---|
| RGB | 224, 176, 255 |
| HSL | hsl(276, 100%, 85%) |
| HSV | 276°, 31%, 100% |
| CMYK | 12%, 31%, 0%, 0% |
| LAB | 78.53, 31.50, -32.48 |
| CIELCHuv | 78.53, 60.63, 289.66° |
- Nearest Pantone
- PMS 2572 C ΔE 15.0 · approximate
- Nearest CSS name
-
plumΔE 11.7
Source Wikipedia, List of colors
Mauve Color Hex Code
The Mauve color hex code is #E0B0FF. Those six digits are three pairs, E0 for red, B0 for green and FF for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.
#E0B0FF
Mauve Color RGB Code
The Mauve RGB code is rgb(224, 176, 255). Blue carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.
rgb(224, 176, 255)
Mauve Color HSV Code
The Mauve HSV code is 276°, 31%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 276 degrees, 31% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.
276°, 31%, 100%
Mauve Color CIELChuv Code
The Mauve CIELCHuv code is 78.53, 60.63, 289.66°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 79 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 61 is how far it sits from grey.
78.53, 60.63, 289.66°
Tonal scale
What are Mauve 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
Palettes
What are Mauve Color Palette Codes?
Each of these is a hue rotation from #E0B0FF. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.
Complementary
Half a turn away is #CFFFB0, a very 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 #B9B0FF and #FFB0F7, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.
Triadic
#FFE0B0 and #B0FFE0 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: #F7FFB0 and #B0FFB9. 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 #CFFFB0, and #FFB9B0 with #B0F7FF. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.
Accessibility
Contrast checker: is Mauve accessible?
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
1.78:11.78
contrast ratio on white background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Fails | Fails |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Fails | Fails |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Fails | n/a |
Black background
11.82:111.82
contrast ratio on black background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Passes | Passes |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Passes | Passes |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Passes | n/a |
At 1.78:1 against white, Mauve is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 11.82:1. 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.
Color vision
How Mauve 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#CDCDEF
Mauve changes substantially here. ΔE 29.8
No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.
Deuteranopia
About 1% of men#D0D3EB
Mauve changes substantially here. ΔE 35.1
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#DEE1DE
Mauve changes substantially here. ΔE 48.3
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#C2C2C2
Mauve changes substantially here. ΔE 45.2
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, Mauve reads as #D0D3EB. That is a shift of ΔE 35.1, 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 48.3. 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.
Snippets
Using Mauve in code
:root {
--mauve: #E0B0FF;
}
.example {
color: var(--mauve);
}// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'mauve': '#E0B0FF',
},
},
}// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let mauve = Color(
red: 0.878,
green: 0.690,
blue: 1.000
)<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="mauve">#E0B0FF</color>// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const mauve = Color(0xFFE0B0FF);