Purpley Blue #5F34E7

About this color

#5F34E7 is a medium-dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 50%, its chroma 0.247 and its hue 284°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Purpley Blue. White text reads best on it, at 6.70:1.

Colors that go with Purpley Blue

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

Color palettes with Purpley Blue

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

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

Similar named colors

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

• Burple #6832E3 ΔE 0.018
• Purply Blue #661AEE ΔE 0.029
• Blue Purple #5A06EF ΔE 0.041
• Blurple #5539CC ΔE 0.044
• Purple Blue #5D21D0 ΔE 0.047
• Bluey Purple #6241C7 ΔE 0.054
• Blue With A Hint Of Purple #533CC6 ΔE 0.054
• Warm Blue #4B57DB ΔE 0.068

More about Purpley Blue

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Purpley 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.

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

Recipe result: #4D4FB4, a difference of ΔE 0.095 from Purpley Blue. Purpley 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 Purpley 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 Purpley 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

   #F4F4FF

   oklch(97% 0.015 286.1)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E7E8FF

   oklch(93.7% 0.031 283.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D4D5FF

   oklch(88.6% 0.058 284.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #B8B8FF

   oklch(80.8% 0.1 283.9)

5. Step 400

   400

   #9690FF

   oklch(70.7% 0.159 284)

6. Step 500

   500

   #806FFF

   oklch(63.2% 0.206 284.2)

7. Step 600

   600

   #6D45FF

   oklch(55.6% 0.256 284.2)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #5F34E7

   oklch(50.2% 0.247 284.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #4B2BB7

   oklch(42.8% 0.203 284.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #3D2A91

    oklch(37.7% 0.16 284.1)

11. Step 950

    950

    #231A55

    oklch(26.9% 0.102 284.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Purpley 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.