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Purple

Hex #800080, rgb(128 0 128). A purple CSS named color.

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About Purple

Purple is a dark saturated purple with the hex code #800080. In RGB it is made of 128 red, 0 green and 128 blue; in HSL its hue is 300°, with 100% saturation and 25% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 42.1%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "purple" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 9.42:1 and against black 2.23:1, so white text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Purple 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 Purple

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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Triadic

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Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Purple textSmall text on white

On white9.42:1

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

APCA Lc 90

Purple textSmall text on black

On black2.23:1

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

APCA Lc -13

White text on Purple (#FFFFFF)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#003D83
  • Deuteranopia#304B7D
  • Tritanopia#842149
  • Protanomaly#3F3681
  • Deuteranomaly#4B417E
  • Tritanomaly#83126B
  • Achromatopsia#464646

Colors similar to Purple

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Purple in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.purple {
  color: purple; /* #800080 */
  background-color: rgb(128 0 128);
  border-color: oklch(42.1% 0.193 328.4);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-purple-500, text-purple-700... */
@theme {
  --color-purple-50: #FFF7FE;
  --color-purple-100: #FFE4FD;
  --color-purple-200: #FBC9F8;
  --color-purple-300: #F69CF2;
  --color-purple-400: #E759E5;
  --color-purple-500: #D91CD9;
  --color-purple-600: #BE00BE;
  --color-purple-700: #9C009C;
  --color-purple-800: #800080;
  --color-purple-900: #670767;
  --color-purple-950: #2A002A;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#800080] text-[#FFFFFF]">…</div>