Plum

Hex #DDA0DD, rgb(221 160 221). A purple CSS named color.

Plum#DDA0DD

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About Plum

Plum is a light moderately saturated purple with the hex code #DDA0DD. In RGB it is made of 221 red, 160 green and 221 blue; in HSL its hue is 300°, with 47% saturation and 75% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 78.3%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "plum" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.07:1 and against black 10.15:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Plum mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

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Plum 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Plum

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Plum with white and black. The readable text color on Plum is black.

Plum textSmall text on white

On white2.07:1

AA fail
AA Large fail
AAA fail
UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 40

Plum textSmall text on black

On black10.15:1

AA pass
AA Large pass
AAA pass
UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -62

Black text on Plum (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Plum appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

Protanopia#9CAFDF
Deuteranopia#AAB7DB
Tritanopia#E1A5B6
Protanomaly#B1ACDE
Deuteranomaly#B7B2DB
Tritanomaly#DFA2CC
Achromatopsia#B4B4B4

Colors similar to Plum

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Plum in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.plum {
  color: plum; /* #DDA0DD */
  background-color: rgb(221 160 221);
  border-color: oklch(78.3% 0.108 326.5);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-plum-500, text-plum-700... */
@theme {
  --color-plum-50: #FFF7FF;
  --color-plum-100: #F8E5F7;
  --color-plum-200: #ECCAEC;
  --color-plum-300: #DDA0DD;
  --color-plum-400: #CA6DCB;
  --color-plum-500: #BA4CBD;
  --color-plum-600: #A339A7;
  --color-plum-700: #852B88;
  --color-plum-800: #6B246D;
  --color-plum-900: #561F58;
  --color-plum-950: #270528;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#DDA0DD] text-[#000000]">…</div>