Purple color (#800080)
Purple is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword purple
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #800080, which is rgb(128, 0, 128) in RGB.
It is a dark, vivid cool color with a hue angle of 300° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 42% in OKLCH. On a purple background, white text gives the higher contrast at 9.41:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Purple color codes
| CSS name | purple |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #800080 |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #800080FF |
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| RGB | rgb(128, 0, 128) |
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| HSL | hsl(300, 100%, 25%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(300, 100%, 50%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(42.1% 0.1935 328.4) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(0%, 100%, 0%, 49.8%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for purple used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of purple
Tints mix purple with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
Shades
Colors that go with purple
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Purple with color blindness
Approximately how purple appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using purple in CSS
.element {
color: purple;
background-color: #800080;
border-color: rgb(128 0 128 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(42.1% 0.1935 328.4);
}Similar named colors
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