Wisteria color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around wisteria. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

A light blue-leaning purple, soft rather than pale. It is the tone most people mean by "lavender" when lavender turns out to be too pink.

Wisteria hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#A29CCD
HEX
#A29CCD
RGB
rgb(162, 156, 205)
HSL
hsl(247, 33%, 71%)
OKLCH
oklch(71.5% 0.071 290.1)
On white
2.57:1
On black
8.17:1

Shades of wisteria

Eleven steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Contrast and readability

Wisteria on white measures 2.57:1 and on black 8.17:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.39:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

Related colors:pastel, powder blue. See every shade on the colors index.