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

9 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.

Wisteria color values

#A29CCDrgb(162, 156, 205)

Color spaces of #a29ccd
RGB	162	156	205
HSL	247°	33%	71%
HSV	247°	24%	80%
CMYK	0.21	0.24	0.00	0.20
XYZ	37.8056	35.8656	62.6767
Yxy	35.8656	0.2773	0.2630
CIE-Lab	66.4171	12.4671	-24.2730
Hunter Lab	59.8879	7.8784	-20.1295
OKLCH	71.5%	0.071	290.1°

#A29CCD is 162 red, 156 green and 205 blue. Its blue channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #9999CC.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	10100010	10011100	11001101
Octal	242	234	315
Decimal	162	156	205
Hex	A2	9C	CD

#a29ccd mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#A29CCD
#918CB8
#817CA4
#716D8F
#615D7B
#514E66
#403E52
#302E3D
#201F28
#100F14
#000000

#a29ccd mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#A29CCD
#ABA5D2
#B4AFD7
#BDB9DC
#C7C3E1
#D0CDE6
#D9D7EB
#E3E1F0
#ECEBF5
#F5F5FA
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red31.0%
Green29.8%
Blue39.2%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#A29CCD
#A5A773

Triadic

#A29CCD
#C8977B
#75B29C

Analogous

#A29CCD
#B795BF
#89A4D0

Monochromatic

#3C355E
#5C5582
#7E78A7
#A29CCD
#C8C2F5
#F0EEFF
#F8F7FF

#a29ccd on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 8.17:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 2.57:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #a29ccd

color: #a29ccd;
background-color: #a29ccd;
border: 3px solid #a29ccd;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #a29ccd;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(162, 156, 205, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(71.5% 0.071 290.1);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands 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.

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