Purply Blue #661AEE

About this color

#661AEE is a medium-dark, vivid purple. In OKLCH its lightness is 49%, its chroma 0.270 and its hue 287°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Purply Blue. White text reads best on it, at 7.12:1.

Colors that go with Purply Blue

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

Color palettes with Purply Blue

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

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

Similar named colors

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

• Blue Purple #5A06EF ΔE 0.027
• Purpley Blue #5F34E7 ΔE 0.029
• Burple #6832E3 ΔE 0.029
• Purple Blue #5D21D0 ΔE 0.048
• Blurple #5539CC ΔE 0.063
• Violet Blue #510AC9 ΔE 0.073
• Blue With A Hint Of Purple #533CC6 ΔE 0.074
• Bluey Purple #6241C7 ΔE 0.074

More about Purply Blue

• Shades of purple
• What purple means

How to make Purply 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 0.120 from Purply Blue. Purply 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 Purply 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 Purply 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

   #E8E7FF

   oklch(93.6% 0.032 287.7)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D6D4FF

   oklch(88.5% 0.059 287.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #BCB7FF

   oklch(80.9% 0.101 287.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #9C8EFF

   oklch(70.8% 0.161 287.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #866BFF

   oklch(63% 0.211 287.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #753FFF

   oklch(55.6% 0.261 287.4)

8. Step 700

   700 (this color)

   #661AEE

   oklch(49.5% 0.27 287.3)

9. Step 800

   800

   #521CBF

   oklch(42.7% 0.224 287.4)

10. Step 900

    900

    #422396

    oklch(37.7% 0.174 287.2)

11. Step 950

    950

    #261758

    oklch(27% 0.11 287.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Purply 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.