Midnight Purple #280137

About this color

#280137 is a very dark, moderately saturated purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 21%, its chroma 0.101 and its hue 314°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Midnight Purple. White text reads best on it, at 18.26:1.

Colors that go with Midnight Purple

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

Color palettes with Midnight Purple

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

• Balloon Box
• Ruby Clasp
• Ruby Signet
• Roller Sunset
• Tourmaline Clasp
• Alexandrite Treasury
• Sapphire Casket
• Sapphire Clasp

Similar named colors

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

• Very Dark Purple #2A0134 ΔE 0.008
• Deep Purple #36013F ΔE 0.037
• Dark Purple #35063E ΔE 0.038
• Eggplant #380835 ΔE 0.047
• Aubergine #3D0734 ΔE 0.058
• Dark Indigo #1F0954 ΔE 0.065
• Dark Plum #3F012C ΔE 0.065
• Eggplant Purple #430541 ΔE 0.071

More about Midnight Purple

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Midnight 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 black

Recipe result: #141414, a difference of ΔE 0.102 from Midnight Purple. Midnight Purple is more vivid than these paints can mix, so start from a ready-made purple paint and adjust it.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Midnight 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 Midnight 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 950.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F9F2FD

   oklch(97% 0.016 313.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F3E3FA

   oklch(93.5% 0.035 315.7)

3. Step 200

   200

   #E9CDF8

   oklch(88.5% 0.065 313.9)

4. Step 300

   300

   #DDA9F6

   oklch(80.9% 0.119 314.5)

5. Step 400

   400

   #CB76F2

   oklch(70.7% 0.191 314.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #BD48ED

   oklch(63.1% 0.245 314.2)

7. Step 600

   600

   #A915DB

   oklch(55.6% 0.265 314.3)

8. Step 700

   700

   #9000BD

   oklch(49.1% 0.243 314.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #750B9A

   oklch(42.7% 0.204 313.9)

10. Step 900

    900

    #5F197A

    oklch(37.7% 0.158 314.4)

11. Step 950

    950 (this color)

    #280137

    oklch(20.9% 0.101 314.2)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Midnight 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.