Purple #800080

About this color

#800080 is a dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 42%, its chroma 0.193 and its hue 328°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Purple. White text reads best on it, at 9.41:1.

Colors that go with Purple

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

Color palettes with Purple

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

• Static Arcade
• Sapphire Casket
• Garnet Salon
• Garnet Treasury
• Sapphire Facet
• Topaz Clasp
• Ember Descent

Similar named colors

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

• Dark Magenta #8B008B ΔE 0.028
• Rich Purple #720058 ΔE 0.072
• Warm Purple #952E8F ΔE 0.074
• Velvet #750851 ΔE 0.081
• Red Violet #9E0168 ΔE 0.082
• Rebecca Purple #663399 ΔE 0.085
• Red Purple #820747 ΔE 0.098
• Grape #7209B7 ΔE 0.099

More about Purple

• Shades of purple
• Colors that go with Purple
• What Purple means

How to make 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

Recipe result: #6E2D91, a difference of ΔE 0.063 from Purple. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for 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 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 800.

1. Step 50

   50

   #FBF2FB

   oklch(97.1% 0.015 325.7)

2. Step 100

   100

   #F7E3F5

   oklch(93.7% 0.032 329)

3. Step 200

   200

   #F1CBEE

   oklch(88.5% 0.063 328.6)

4. Step 300

   300

   #E9A6E5

   oklch(80.9% 0.113 328.6)

5. Step 400

   400

   #DB72D8

   oklch(70.7% 0.18 328.3)

6. Step 500

   500

   #CF43CD

   oklch(63.1% 0.231 328.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #BA0BBA

   oklch(55.6% 0.251 328.3)

8. Step 700

   700

   #9E009E

   oklch(49.1% 0.226 328.4)

9. Step 800

   800 (this color)

   #800080

   oklch(42.1% 0.193 328.4)

10. Step 900

    900

    #691568

    oklch(37.7% 0.151 328.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #3E103D

    oklch(27.1% 0.095 328.7)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

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.