Grape #7209B7

About this color

#7209B7 is a dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 45%, its chroma 0.228 and its hue 304°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Grape. White text reads best on it, at 8.61:1.

Colors that go with Grape

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

Color palettes with Grape

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

• Boombox and Cassette
• Arcade Night
• Miami Grid
• Synthwave Night

Similar named colors

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

• Chrysanthemum #560BAD ΔE 0.060
• Purple Blue #5D21D0 ΔE 0.065
• Rebecca Purple #663399 ΔE 0.068
• Violet Blue #510AC9 ΔE 0.077
• Dark Violet #9400D3 ΔE 0.079
• Bluey Purple #6241C7 ΔE 0.080
• Blurple #5539CC ΔE 0.085
• Blue With A Hint Of Purple #533CC6 ΔE 0.086

More about Grape

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make 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.

• 1 part purple

Recipe result: #6E2D91, a difference of ΔE 0.071 from Grape. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for 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 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 800.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F8F3FF

   oklch(97.1% 0.017 304.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EFE4FF

   oklch(93.6% 0.038 304.1)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E3CEFF

   oklch(88.4% 0.07 304.5)

4. Step 300

   300

   #D1ADFF

   oklch(80.8% 0.119 304)

5. Step 400

   400

   #BB7DFF

   oklch(70.7% 0.19 304)

6. Step 500

   500

   #AC50FF

   oklch(63.1% 0.248 304.2)

7. Step 600

   600

   #9B00F8

   oklch(55.6% 0.29 303.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #8300D2

   oklch(49.1% 0.256 304.1)

9. Step 800

   800 (this color)

   #7209B7

   oklch(44.7% 0.228 304)

10. Step 900

    900

    #58148B

    oklch(37.7% 0.178 304.4)

11. Step 950

    950

    #331052

    oklch(27% 0.113 303.7)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

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.