When the Placid Acre under Drifting

#753398 RGB(117,51,152)

About this color

When the Placid Acre under Drifting is rendered by screens as RGB(117, 51, 152) — a medium-dark, vivid violet hue.

#753398RGB(117, 51, 152)

HSL 279° · 50% saturation · 40% lightness

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Psychology

Violet at medium lightness walks a line between warm and cool — often associated with creativity, spirituality and ambiguity.

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History

The original purple dye — Tyrian purple — was extracted from sea snails and required thousands of molluscs for a single garment, making it the most expensive colour in the ancient world.

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Design use

This shade sits in a versatile middle ground — useful as interactive elements, tags, badges, and highlight states. It has enough saturation to register clearly without straining extended-reading contexts.

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Colour pairings

When it comes to colour harmony, pair this violet with gold and cream for a rich, considered palette, or with sage and natural linen for something quieter and more contemplative.

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Color formats

Name
When the Placid Acre under Drifting
HEX
#753398
RGB
rgb(117,51,152)
RGB%
rgb(45.9%,20%,59.6%)
HSL
hsl(279,50%,40%)
HSV
hsv(279,66%,60%)
CMYK
cmyk(23,66,0,40)
LAB
lab(35,46,-43)
LCH
lch(35,63,317)
sRGB
(0.459,0.2,0.596)
HEX8
#753398ff
CSS Name
Decimal
117051152

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Color info

Lightness
40%
Saturation
50%
Hue
279°
Chroma
63
Temperature
WarmCool
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