Dark Orchid #9932CC

About this color

#9932CC is a medium-dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 54%, its chroma 0.227 and its hue 312°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Dark Orchid. White text reads best on it, at 5.70:1.

Colors that go with Dark Orchid

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

Color palettes with Dark Orchid

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

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Similar named colors

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

• Dark Violet #9400D3 ΔE 0.043
• Purply #983FB2 ΔE 0.047
• Blue Violet #8A2BE2 ΔE 0.049
• Vibrant Purple #AD03DE ΔE 0.053
• Purpley #8756E4 ΔE 0.076
• Vivid Purple #9900FA ΔE 0.077
• Electric Purple #AA23FF ΔE 0.082
• Bright Violet #AD0AFD ΔE 0.083

More about Dark Orchid

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Dark Orchid

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 purple
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #944DB4, a difference of ΔE 0.063 from Dark Orchid. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Dark Orchid 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 Dark Orchid

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 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F8F3FC

   oklch(97.1% 0.013 310.5)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F0E5F9

   oklch(93.6% 0.029 310.1)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E6CFF5

   oklch(88.5% 0.057 312.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #D6AEF1

   oklch(80.9% 0.102 311.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #C27FEA

   oklch(70.7% 0.164 311.7)

6. Step 500

   500

   #B259E3

   oklch(63% 0.209 311.6)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #9932CC

   oklch(54.1% 0.227 311.5)

8. Step 700

   700

   #8728B5

   oklch(49.2% 0.211 311.6)

9. Step 800

   800

   #6D2493

   oklch(42.7% 0.175 311.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #592475

    oklch(37.7% 0.137 311.7)

11. Step 950

    950

    #341744

    oklch(27% 0.085 311.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dark Orchid 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.