Dusty Grape #545775

About this color

#545775 is a medium-dark, muted blue. In OKLCH its lightness is 47%, its chroma 0.049 and its hue 280°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Dusty Grape. White text reads best on it, at 7.00:1.

Colors that go with Dusty Grape

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

Color palettes with Dusty Grape

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

• Chalk and Cotton
• Ridgeline Trail
• Harbour Haze
• Basalt and Summit
• Nocturnal Tide
• Lunar Terminal
• Lunar Hours
• Abyss and Lunar

Similar named colors

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

• Dusk #4E5481 ΔE 0.026
• YInMn Blue #415A77 ΔE 0.027
• Slate #516572 ΔE 0.044
• Twilight #4E518B ΔE 0.045
• Denim #3B638C ΔE 0.050
• Dusky Blue #475F94 ΔE 0.051
• Light Navy Blue #2E5A88 ΔE 0.053
• Denim Blue #3B5B92 ΔE 0.054

More about Dusty Grape

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Dusty Grape

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 gray
• 1 part red

Recipe result: #4A5A78, a difference of ΔE 0.017 from Dusty Grape. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

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Codes for Dusty Grape 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 Dusty Grape

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

   #F5F5F7

   oklch(97.1% 0.003 286.4)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E9E9EE

   oklch(93.5% 0.007 286.3)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D7D8E2

   oklch(88.4% 0.014 281.5)

4. Step 300

   300

   #BDBFD0

   oklch(80.8% 0.024 280.5)

5. Step 400

   400

   #9B9FB8

   oklch(70.8% 0.037 278.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #8387A7

   oklch(63.2% 0.048 279.3)

7. Step 600

   600

   #6D7092

   oklch(55.6% 0.053 280.6)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #545775

   oklch(46.6% 0.049 279.9)

9. Step 800

   800

   #4A4D65

   oklch(42.7% 0.04 279)

10. Step 900

    900

    #3E4052

    oklch(37.7% 0.031 279.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #242530

    oklch(26.8% 0.02 280.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dusty Grape 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.