Easter Purple #C071FE

About this color

#C071FE is a medium-light, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 69%, its chroma 0.208 and its hue 308°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Easter Purple. Black text reads best on it, at 7.03:1.

Colors that go with Easter Purple

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

Color palettes with Easter Purple

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

• Crayon Castle
• Lollipop Party
• Balloon Box

Similar named colors

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

• Light Purple #BF77F6 ΔE 0.019
• Light Urple #B36FF6 ΔE 0.025
• Bright Lavender #C760FF ΔE 0.034
• Bright Lilac #C95EFB ΔE 0.038
• Liliac #C48EFD ΔE 0.066
• Heliotrope #D94FF5 ΔE 0.070
• Lighter Purple #A55AF4 ΔE 0.070
• Orchid #DA70D6 ΔE 0.076

More about Easter Purple

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Easter 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.

• 1 part purple
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #B876D0, a difference of ΔE 0.073 from Easter Purple. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Easter 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 Easter 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 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F9F3FF

   oklch(97.2% 0.017 308.3)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F1E4FE

   oklch(93.7% 0.037 308)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E6CDFF

   oklch(88.5% 0.073 307.6)

4. Step 300

   300

   #D7AAFF

   oklch(80.9% 0.126 308)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #C071FE

   oklch(69.4% 0.208 307.7)

6. Step 500

   500

   #B546FF

   oklch(63.1% 0.261 307.8)

7. Step 600

   600

   #A100EF

   oklch(55.6% 0.285 307.6)

8. Step 700

   700

   #8800CA

   oklch(49.1% 0.251 307.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #7000A8

   oklch(42.7% 0.219 307.7)

10. Step 900

    900

    #5B1486

    oklch(37.7% 0.173 307.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #35104E

    oklch(27% 0.109 307.9)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Easter 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.