Blue Purple #5A06EF

About this color

#5A06EF is a medium-dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 48%, its chroma 0.279 and its hue 283°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Blue Purple. White text reads best on it, at 7.75:1.

Colors that go with Blue Purple

Matches found by rotating Blue Purple around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Blue Purple

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Blue Purple, closest first.

No curated palette has a color within ΔE 0.06 of Blue Purple yet.

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Blue Purple, with their ΔE distance.

• Purply Blue #661AEE ΔE 0.027
• Purpley Blue #5F34E7 ΔE 0.041
• Burple #6832E3 ΔE 0.050
• Purple Blue #5D21D0 ΔE 0.050
• Light Royal Blue #3A2EFE ΔE 0.061
• Violet Blue #510AC9 ΔE 0.063
• Blurple #5539CC ΔE 0.066
• Majorelle Blue #3F37C9 ΔE 0.076

More about Blue Purple

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Blue Purple

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 2 parts blue
• 2 parts purple
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #4D4FB4, a difference of ΔE 0.124 from Blue Purple. Blue Purple is more vivid than these paints can mix, so start from a ready-made purple paint and adjust it.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Blue Purple in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Blue Purple

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 700.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F4F4FF

   oklch(97% 0.015 286.1)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E6E8FF

   oklch(93.6% 0.031 281.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D3D5FF

   oklch(88.5% 0.058 283)

4. Step 300

   300

   #B8B8FF

   oklch(80.8% 0.1 283.9)

5. Step 400

   400

   #9590FF

   oklch(70.6% 0.159 283.6)

6. Step 500

   500

   #7E6FFF

   oklch(63% 0.206 283.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #6B46FF

   oklch(55.5% 0.255 283.5)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #5A06EF

   oklch(47.7% 0.279 283.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #4B1CC5

   oklch(42.7% 0.231 283.4)

10. Step 900

    900

    #3D239B

    oklch(37.7% 0.18 283.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #23175B

    oklch(27% 0.115 283.7)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Blue Purple with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.