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Tailwind mauve-950

The hex code of Tailwind mauve-950 is #0c090c (rgb(12 9 12)), from its Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 value oklch(14.5% 0.008 326). White text on it reaches 19.81:1, passing WCAG AAA; below, Recolor (recolor.page) puts it on a page.

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#0c090cmauve-950
From the theme file of Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 (--color-mauve-950), converted with Recolor's color code, October 9, 2026
FormatValue
OKLCH, as Tailwind writes itoklch(14.5% 0.008 326)
Hex#0c090c
RGBrgb(12 9 12)
HSLhsl(300 14% 4%)
CSS variablevar(--color-mauve-950)
Nearest CSS nameblack #000000, 0.145 away in OKLab
White text19.81:1: AA passes, AAA passes, large text passes
Black text1.06:1: AA fails, AAA fails, large text fails

About mauve-950

Read as numbers, mauve-950 is lightness 14.5%, chroma 0.008 and hue 326.0 degrees; read by eye, it is a purplish black. It closes the mauve scale as its darkest shade, 6.7 points of lightness below mauve-900.

HSL calls its lightness 4%, OKLCH 14.5%: 10 points between a formula and a measure of what the eye sees. No gamut mapping is needed here: oklch(14.5% 0.008 326) sits inside sRGB and #0c090c matches it.

White on mauve-950 reads at 19.81:1, enough for AAA body text; black reaches 1.06:1 and should stay off it. White text passes on every mauve shade from mauve-500 down, so mauve-950 is 5 shades past the line.

No CSS named color comes near it: the closest, black (#000000), is 0.145 away in OKLab.

Tints and shades

  1. #d1d0d0
  2. #a5a2a3
  3. #7a7778
  4. #534f50
  5. #2e292b
  6. #0c090c
  7. #080506
  8. #040303
  9. #020101

From light to dark: 5 toward white and 3 toward black, mixed in OKLCH a sixth of the way at a time with the hue kept. A step that would repeat its neighbor is left out.

A palette around it

  1. #0c090c
  2. #70d7c2
  3. #296858
  4. #ffebf2
  5. #729c8d

Around mauve-950 as swatch 1, Recolor's generator made a complementary palette, built on the hue opposite: #70d7c2, #296858, #ffebf2, #729c8d, drawn from a seed fixed by its hex. Open it in Recolor.

Using mauve-950

Pair it with text-white, 19.81:1; mauve-950 as text on a white page measures the same ratio. In CSS it is var(--color-mauve-950).

HTML
<a class="bg-mauve-950 text-white" href="/start">Get started</a>
<p class="text-mauve-950">Text in mauve-950</p>

Common questions

Does white text pass WCAG AA on Tailwind mauve-950?

Yes. White text measures 19.81:1 on mauve-950, above the 4.5:1 that WCAG AA asks of body text, and above AAA's 7:1 too.

Is Tailwind mauve-950 defined in OKLCH?

Yes. Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 defines it as --color-mauve-950: oklch(14.5% 0.008 326); #0c090c is its conversion to sRGB.

Is there a CSS named color for Tailwind mauve-950?

No. The nearest CSS named color is black (#000000), 0.145 away in OKLab.

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