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purple

#800080

purpleCSS named color.

Formats

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Contrast & legibility

Text on white9.42:1 AA ✓
Text on black2.23:1 AA ✗

WCAG 2.2 AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text. Check any pair →

Tints & shades

An 11-stop OKLCH ramp through purple (the same engine as the theme builder). Click any stop to open its page.

Harmonies

Explore all harmonies for #800080

Color-blindness preview

#003d83

Protanopia

#304b7d

Deuteranopia

#842149

Tritanopia

#464646

Achromatopsia

How purple appears to viewers with each color-vision deficiency. Full simulator →

About purple

#800080 is purple, a css named color. This page shows its rgb(128, 0, 128) / hsl(300, 100%, 25.1%) / oklch(0.4209 0.1935 328.36) values, WCAG contrast against black and white, an OKLCH tint-and-shade ramp, and complementary, analogous, and triadic harmonies — all computed in perceptually-uniform OKLCH.