Blurple #5539CC

About this color

#5539CC is a medium-dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 47%, its chroma 0.213 and its hue 283°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Blurple. White text reads best on it, at 7.38:1.

Colors that go with Blurple

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

Color palettes with Blurple

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

• Mixtape Rink

Similar named colors

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

• Blue With A Hint Of Purple #533CC6 ΔE 0.011
• Bluey Purple #6241C7 ΔE 0.030
• Purple Blue #5D21D0 ΔE 0.035
• Majorelle Blue #3F37C9 ΔE 0.036
• Purpley Blue #5F34E7 ΔE 0.044
• Burple #6832E3 ΔE 0.047
• Violet Blue #510AC9 ΔE 0.056
• Purply Blue #661AEE ΔE 0.063

More about Blurple

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Blurple

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 0.060 from Blurple. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Blurple 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 Blurple

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

   #E7E8FE

   oklch(93.7% 0.03 283.7)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D3D5FF

   oklch(88.5% 0.058 283)

4. Step 300

   300

   #B8B9FF

   oklch(81% 0.098 283.3)

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

   #6A50F1

   oklch(55.6% 0.229 283.4)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #5539CC

   oklch(47.4% 0.213 283.4)

9. Step 800

   800

   #4836AA

   oklch(42.8% 0.176 283.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #3C3186

    oklch(37.8% 0.136 283.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #221E4F

    oklch(27.1% 0.087 282.6)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Blurple 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.