Crayola crayon color
Crayola Blue Violet #7366BD
Crayola Blue Violet is shown here as #7366BD, the commonly published value for the crayon. It is a soft violet in the violet family. In OKLCH it sits at lightness 0.562, chroma 0.131 and hue 288.3°. The nearest CSS named color is slateblue (#6A5ACD), ΔE2000 5.0 away.
- Relative luminance
- 0.1682
- OKLCH L · C · h
- 0.562 · 0.131 · 288.3
- Best text
- White 4.81:1
- Hue family
- Violet
#7366BD color codes
- HEX
#7366BD- RGB
rgb(115, 102, 189)- HSL
hsl(249, 40%, 57%)- OKLCH
oklch(0.562 0.131 288.3)- OKLab
oklab(0.562 0.041 -0.125)- CIELAB (D65)
L* 48.03, a* 26.28, b* -44.18- XYZ (D65)
X 21.00, Y 16.82, Z 50.27- CMYK (naive)
cmyk(39%, 46%, 0%, 26%)
CIELAB and XYZ use the D65 white point; CSS lab() uses D50, so paste the OKLCH or HEX value into stylesheets. CMYK here is a plain formula with no press profile.
Crayola is a trademark of Crayola LLC, which this site is not affiliated with. The value is the commonly published sRGB rendering of the crayon, not a Crayola specification.
Legibility
Contrast: is #7366BD accessible?
White text on it reaches 4.81:1, passing AA. Black text manages only 4.36:1, enough for large text only.
WCAG 2 gives the same ratio whichever color is the text; APCA does not, so its Lc changes sign and size with polarity.
Open the Contrast System-
Black text on it
4.36:1
- AA fails
- AA large passes
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc +30
-
White text on it
4.81:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc −78
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As text on black
4.36:1
- AA fails
- AA large passes
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc −28
-
As text on white
4.81:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc +73
Nearest versions that pass 4.5:1
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For text on white
#7366BD 4.81:1
It already reaches 4.81:1 on white, so no change is needed.
-
For text on black
#7669C0 4.55:1
Lightening its OKLCH lightness from 0.56 to 0.57 reaches 4.55:1 on black, keeping the hue.
Checking another pair? Use the Contrast Checker.
Studio
Adjust #7366BD live
Move lightness, chroma and hue in OKLCH, or drag on the map. The map is every lightness and chroma at the current hue: sRGB inside the solid area, Display P3 out to the dashed line.
Scale
Shades and tints of #7366BD
Eleven OKLCH lightness steps at this hue, each with its contrast against white and black. #7366BD sits at step 600.
Under each step, white and black text on it; a bold figure passes 4.5:1.
Gamut
How vivid #7366BD can get
At its lightness and hue, sRGB reaches OKLCH chroma 0.258; #7366BD uses 51% of it. Display P3, which many recent phones and laptops show, reaches 0.277 there: 7% more.
- sRGB
- Display P3
- Rec. 2020
- Dominant wavelength
- OKLCH chroma
- 0.131
- sRGB edge
- 0.258
- Display P3 edge
- 0.277
- Rec. 2020 edge
- 0.281
- Dominant wavelength
- 456 nm
- Excitation purity
- 45%
- Chromaticity
- x 0.2384, y 0.1909
- This color#7366BD
- Most vivid in sRGB#7942FF
- Most vivid in Display P3oklch(0.562 0.277 288.3)
On a screen without Display P3 the last tile shows the sRGB edge instead.
.accent {
color: #7366bd;
}
@media (color-gamut: p3) {
.accent { color: color(display-p3 0.4459 0.2333 1); }
}Mixing
Mixing #7366BD
Each row is the same mix worked out in a different space, with the halfway color at its end. sRGB, which older CSS gradients use, can sag gray or dark in the middle; OKLab keeps the lightness steps even; OKLCH holds chroma and hue as it goes.
White #FFFFFF
- sRGB50%#B9B3DE
- OKLab50%#B5B2E0
- OKLCH50%#B5B2E0
Black #000000
- sRGB50%#3A335F
- OKLab50%#282347
- OKLCH50%#282347
Its complement #7C7A00
- sRGB50%#78705F
- OKLab50%#757578
- OKLCH50%#00868A
/* A gradient and a mix, worked out in OKLCH */
background: linear-gradient(in oklch, #7366bd, white);
color: color-mix(in oklch, #7366bd 50%, white);In use
#7366BD in an interface
A button, a link, a heading, a focused field, an icon and a chart line in this color, on a light page and a dark one. Each check is a WCAG 2 contrast minimum: 1.4.3 for text, 1.4.11 for the rest.
Light page
- Button labelText, 4.5:14.81:1 Passes
- Link and body-size textText, 4.5:14.81:1 Passes
- Large headingLarge text, 3:14.81:1 Passes
- Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:14.81:1 Passes
Dark page
- Button labelText, 4.5:14.81:1 Passes
- Link and body-size textText, 4.5:13.89:1 Fails
- Large headingLarge text, 3:13.89:1 Passes
- Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:13.89:1 Passes
For text on this page, the nearest shade that passes is #7E72CA 4.59:1
Color vision
How #7366BD looks with color blindness
Achromatopsia changes it most, ΔE2000 24.2; tritanopia changes it least, 10.9.
Simulated with Machado et al. (2009) at full severity, in linear light.
Simulate a whole page What each type sees-
Protanopia
No working red (long-wavelength) cones
#4674C0 ΔE2000 12.2
Distinct
Reads as soft blue
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Deuteranopia
No working green (medium-wavelength) cones
#4670BB ΔE2000 11.4
Distinct
Reads as soft blue
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Tritanopia
No working blue (short-wavelength) cones
#5F7788 ΔE2000 10.9
Distinct
Reads as grayish blue
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Achromatopsia
No cone color vision; lightness only
#727272 ΔE2000 24.2
Distinct
Reads as gray
Pairing check
Checked against its complement, #7C7A00. Their lightness contrast is only 1.06:1, so where hue collapses, add a label, icon or pattern.
| Vision | The pair | ΔE2000 | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal vision | #7366BD · #7C7A00 | 60.5 | Stays distinct |
| Protanopia | #4674C0 · #857400 | 52.7 | Stays distinct |
| Deuteranopia | #4670BB · #877812 | 52.4 | Stays distinct |
| Tritanopia | #5F7788 · #867167 | 21.7 | Stays distinct |
| Achromatopsia | #727272 · #767676 | 1.6 | Easily confused |
Harmony
Color harmonies for #7366BD
Its complement is #7C7A00, a soft yellow.
Hue rotations in OKLCH, mapped into sRGB by trimming chroma so hue and lightness stay put.
Open the Harmony Studio- Base#7366BD
- Complement#7C7A00
Complementary
Open in Harmony Studio- −30°#4175C1
- Base#7366BD
- +30°#9559A6
Analogous
Open in Harmony Studio- Base#7366BD
- +120°#B15924
- +240°#008A69
Triadic
Open in Harmony Studio- Base#7366BD
- +150°#9A6B00
- +210°#4A8735
Split-complementary
Open in Harmony StudioCode
Design tokens
Ready-to-paste tokens in six formats. Rename them to fit your system.
:root {
--color-crayola-blue-violet: #7366bd;
}// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'crayola-blue-violet': '#7366bd',
},
},
},
};/* app.css — Tailwind CSS v4 */
@import "tailwindcss";
@theme {
--color-crayola-blue-violet: oklch(0.562 0.131 288.3);
}{
"color": {
"crayola-blue-violet": {
"$type": "color",
"$value": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [0.451, 0.4, 0.7412],
"hex": "#7366bd"
},
"$description": "Crayola Blue Violet"
}
}
}import SwiftUI
enum Palette {
static let crayolaBlueViolet = Color(.sRGB, red: 0.451, green: 0.400, blue: 0.741, opacity: 1)
}import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
object Palette {
val CrayolaBlueViolet = Color(0xFF7366BD)
}Matches
The nearest match in each system
The closest CSS name, Tailwind shade, RAL Classic paint and Crayola crayon by ΔE2000; under 2 is hard to tell apart side by side. RAL and Crayola values approximate physical colors.
Tools
Open #7366BD in the tools
Each opens over this page. More colors live in the Color Library, and every color page is listed on the hub.
- Color InspectorEvery format, its names, contrast and color vision in one panel.
- Contrast SystemBlack and white text on this color, with fixes in both directions.
- Harmony StudioPalettes built from this color, walked to a contrast target if you ask.
- Color Space ConverterThe same color in 34 notations, with its gamut headroom.
- Color Name FinderThe nearest of 1,055 color names by ΔE2000.