Purple Blue #5D21D0

About this color

#5D21D0 is a medium-dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 46%, its chroma 0.237 and its hue 288°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Purple Blue. White text reads best on it, at 8.09:1.

Colors that go with Purple Blue

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

Color palettes with Purple Blue

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

No curated palette has a color within ΔE 0.06 of Purple Blue yet.

Similar named colors

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

• Violet Blue #510AC9 ΔE 0.035
• Blurple #5539CC ΔE 0.035
• Blue With A Hint Of Purple #533CC6 ΔE 0.042
• Burple #6832E3 ΔE 0.045
• Purpley Blue #5F34E7 ΔE 0.047
• Purply Blue #661AEE ΔE 0.048
• Blue Purple #5A06EF ΔE 0.050
• Bluey Purple #6241C7 ΔE 0.052

More about Purple Blue

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Purple Blue

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.

• 3 parts purple
• 2 parts blue
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #5443A8, a difference of ΔE 0.082 from Purple Blue. Purple Blue 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 Purple Blue 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 Blue

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

   #F5F4FF

   oklch(97.1% 0.015 290.3)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E8E7FF

   oklch(93.6% 0.032 287.7)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D7D4FF

   oklch(88.6% 0.059 288.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #BDB6FF

   oklch(80.8% 0.102 288.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #9E8DFF

   oklch(70.8% 0.163 288.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #896AFF

   oklch(63.1% 0.212 288.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #7741FB

   oklch(55.6% 0.255 288.4)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #5D21D0

   oklch(46% 0.237 288.5)

9. Step 800

   800

   #522AB1

   oklch(42.7% 0.197 288.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #432A8C

    oklch(37.8% 0.153 288.6)

11. Step 950

    950

    #271A52

    oklch(27.1% 0.097 288.9)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Purple Blue 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.