Blue With A Hint Of Purple #533CC6

About this color

#533CC6 is a medium-dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 47%, its chroma 0.203 and its hue 283°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Blue With A Hint Of Purple. White text reads best on it, at 7.42:1.

Colors that go with Blue With A Hint Of Purple

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

Color palettes with Blue With A Hint Of Purple

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

• Mixtape Rink
• Sensor Stack

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Blue With A Hint Of Purple, with their ΔE distance.

• Blurple #5539CC ΔE 0.011
• Bluey Purple #6241C7 ΔE 0.029
• Majorelle Blue #3F37C9 ΔE 0.035
• Purple Blue #5D21D0 ΔE 0.042
• Purpley Blue #5F34E7 ΔE 0.054
• Burple #6832E3 ΔE 0.056
• Violet Blue #510AC9 ΔE 0.060
• Blue Blue #2242C7 ΔE 0.062

More about Blue With A Hint Of Purple

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Blue With A Hint Of 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.

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

Recipe result: #5443A8, a difference of ΔE 0.049 from Blue With A Hint Of Purple. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Blue With A Hint Of 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 With A Hint Of 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

   #F4F5FE

   oklch(97.2% 0.012 281.1)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E7E8FD

   oklch(93.7% 0.028 283.7)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D3D5FD

   oklch(88.4% 0.055 283)

4. Step 300

   300

   #B7B9FE

   oklch(80.9% 0.097 282.7)

5. Step 400

   400

   #9491FE

   oklch(70.7% 0.157 282.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #7D71FC

   oklch(63.1% 0.2 282.9)

7. Step 600

   600

   #6954EB

   oklch(55.6% 0.217 283.1)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #533CC6

   oklch(47.1% 0.203 283)

9. Step 800

   800

   #4738A6

   oklch(42.6% 0.169 282.8)

10. Step 900

    900

    #3B3283

    oklch(37.6% 0.131 283.1)

11. Step 950

    950

    #221E4D

    oklch(26.9% 0.084 283.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Blue With A Hint Of 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.