Brownish Purple #76424E

About this color

#76424E is a dark, moderately saturated red. In OKLCH its lightness is 45%, its chroma 0.073 and its hue 6°. Its hue sits on the warm side of the wheel. It is the named color Brownish Purple. White text reads best on it, at 7.89:1.

Colors that go with Brownish Purple

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

Color palettes with Brownish Purple

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

• Ledger and Attic
• Ember Drive
• Cellar and Wine
• Marshmallow Tea Party
• Bonbon Tin
• Cumulus and Seaside
• Fig and Clay
• Clover Picnic

Similar named colors

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

• Purple Brown #673A3F ΔE 0.042
• Dark Mauve #874C62 ΔE 0.050
• Red Brown #8B2E16 ΔE 0.077
• Milk Chocolate #7F4E1E ΔE 0.082
• Saddle Brown #8B4513 ΔE 0.084
• Rust Brown #8B3103 ΔE 0.085
• Dusty Grape #545775 ΔE 0.087
• Dull Purple #84597E ΔE 0.089

More about Brownish Purple

• Shades of pink
• What pink means

How to make Brownish 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.

• 4 parts purple
• 2 parts orange
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #744451, a difference of ΔE 0.006 from Brownish Purple. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

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Codes for Brownish 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 Brownish 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 800.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F9F4F5

   oklch(97.1% 0.006 3.3)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F2E7E8

   oklch(93.7% 0.012 11)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E8D3D7

   oklch(88.5% 0.024 4.5)

4. Step 300

   300

   #DAB6BC

   oklch(80.9% 0.042 6.8)

5. Step 400

   400

   #C68F9A

   oklch(70.6% 0.068 5.7)

6. Step 500

   500

   #B77382

   oklch(63.2% 0.088 5.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #A25A6B

   oklch(55.6% 0.096 5.5)

8. Step 700

   700

   #8A4A59

   oklch(49.1% 0.088 5.8)

9. Step 800

   800 (this color)

   #76424E

   oklch(44.6% 0.073 5.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #5B343D

    oklch(37.6% 0.057 5.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #361F24

    oklch(27.1% 0.037 5.6)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Brownish 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.