Purpley #8756E4

About this color

#8756E4 is a medium-dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 58%, its chroma 0.205 and its hue 295°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Purpley. White text reads best on it, at 4.68:1.

Colors that go with Purpley

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

Color palettes with Purpley

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

• Ultraviolet Boot
• Static City

Similar named colors

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

• Medium Slate Blue #7B68EE ΔE 0.043
• Light Indigo #6D5ACF ΔE 0.053
• Lighter Purple #A55AF4 ΔE 0.058
• Slate Blue #6A5ACD ΔE 0.059
• Dark Periwinkle #665FD1 ΔE 0.062
• Medium Purple #9370DB ΔE 0.067
• Blue Violet #8A2BE2 ΔE 0.069
• Amethyst #9B5FC0 ΔE 0.072

More about Purpley

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Purpley

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 white
• 1 part blue

Recipe result: #8B5DBF, a difference of ΔE 0.061 from Purpley. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make purple? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Purpley 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 Purpley

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 600.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F6F4FD

   oklch(97.1% 0.012 296.4)

2. Step 100

   100

   #EBE7FA

   oklch(93.7% 0.026 295.5)

3. Step 200

   200

   #DBD3F8

   oklch(88.5% 0.051 295.2)

4. Step 300

   300

   #C5B5F6

   oklch(80.9% 0.092 295.6)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A88CF2

   oklch(70.7% 0.147 295)

6. Step 500

   500

   #946BED

   oklch(63.1% 0.188 295)

7. Step 600

   600 (this color)

   #8756E4

   oklch(58% 0.205 295.1)

8. Step 700

   700

   #6D3EBF

   oklch(49.2% 0.191 295.2)

9. Step 800

   800

   #58349A

   oklch(42.7% 0.158 295.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #482F7B

    oklch(37.7% 0.124 294.9)

11. Step 950

    950

    #2A1C48

    oklch(26.9% 0.079 295.3)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Purpley 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.