What colors make Purple?
On this page, you will find the Purple Hex, RGB, Hue Saturation Light (HSL), and CMYK color codes. We also include shades and variations of Purple, color palettes, and related colors.
Purple color code
The Purple hex code is #A020F0. The Purple hex code can be quantified in RGB values which represent the amount of Red, Green and Blue color channels. The RGB value is an estimated amount of red, green, and blue color to create the color Purple. The RGB estimate is:
- Red: #A0 in Hex amounts to 63%
- Green: #20 in Hex amounts to 13%
- Blue: #F0 in Hex amounts to 94%
Purple in HSL
HSL is an acronym which stands for Hue, Saturation, and Lightness. HSL was developed for television and standardized for computer displays.
Hue is the perceived color name. Saturation is the "colorfulness" relative to the color's brightness. Brightness is our human eye's quantifed perception of the spectral light distribution. Lightness is the color brightness relative to a perceived similarly illuminated white.
Brightness and "colorfulness" are absolute measures, while Lightness and and Saturation are relative measures.
Purple is 277deg, 87%, 53% HSL.
- Hue: 277deg
- Saturation: 87%
- Light: 53%
Purple color in CMYK color model
The CMYK color model is commonly used in printing. The CMYK acronym stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key. Where key is black. Since the black color is the absence of light, the CMYK is a subtractive color model. White light minus red is cyan, minus green is magenta, minus blue is yellow.
Purple is 33% 87% 0% 6% CMYK.
- Cyan: 33%
- Magenta: 87%
- Yellow: 0%
- Key (or Black): 6%
Different shades of Purple
According to its HSL value, Purple contains about 53% of brightness.
Below are the all the values in HEX, HSL and CMYK color spaces for each shade variations:
- Hex HSL CMYK
- #EACFFB 276deg, 87%, 90% 6%, 17%, 0%, 99%
- #D69FF8 276deg, 87%, 80% 13%, 35%, 0%, 99%
- #C16FF5 276deg, 87%, 70% 20%, 54%, 0%, 99%
- #AD3FF2 276deg, 87%, 60% 28%, 73%, 0%, 99%
- #9910EE 276deg, 87%, 50% 35%, 93%, 0%, 99%
- #7A0CBF 276deg, 87%, 40% 35%, 93%, 0%, 99%
- #5B098F 276deg, 87%, 30% 35%, 93%, 0%, 99%
- #3D065F 276deg, 87%, 20% 35%, 93%, 0%, 99%
- #1E032F 276deg, 87%, 10% 35%, 93%, 0%, 99%
Accessibility tips when using the color Purple
Ensure your content remains available to the broadest possible audience. Make sure the text color has enough contrast with its background. When using Purple on text, we recommend you use black for the background.
The reason Purple contrasts better with a black background is because Purple has a degree of brightness of 53% which provides better contrast on a dark background.
The Purple color palette hex codes.
There are a few color palettes available when working with Purple, but below is our favorite:
- Ottoman Red
#EE2222 - Caduceus Staff
#EEDD22 - Becquerel
#4BEC13 - Fake Jade
#13EAC9 - Bluebonnet
#1C1CF0 - Furious Fuchsia
#EE2277
By interpolating Hue and Saturation values, we can also generate great color palettes inspired from Purple
- Snowflake
#EFF0F0 - Natural Light
#F1EBC8 - Sweet Mint Pesto
#BBEE99 - Jittery Jade
#77EEBB - Bluetiful
#3C69E7 - Fatty Fuchsia
#EE0077
Below is a series of palettes generated from the color Purple:
Palette variances of 3 colors:
- #9F20EF
- #2020EF
- #20A0EF
- #EF6C20
- #9F20EF
- #20EFD3
- #EF203F
- #EF20BF
- #9F20EF
Palette variances of 4 colors:
- #EF208B
- #EF20E5
- #9F20EF
- #4520EF
- #20EF23
- #EFD720
- #EF2054
- #9F20EF
- #EF2038
- #9F20EF
- #20A7EF
- #20EF31
Palette variances of 5 colors:
- #9F20EF
- #203CEF
- #20D8EF
- #20EF6B
- #70EF20
- #EF20AA
- #9F20EF
- #2035EF
- #20CAEF
- #20EF80
- #EF20D8
- #9F20EF
- #3720EF
- #2070EF
- #20D8EF
Palette variances of 6 colors:
- #9F20EF
- #3720EF
- #2070EF
- #20D8EF
- #20EF9F
- #20EF38
- #D8EF20
- #EF9F20
- #EF3720
- #EF2070
- #EF20D8
- #9F20EF
- #EF4C20
- #EF2099
- #9F20EF
- #2046EF
- #20ECEF
- #20EF4C
You will find specific color values of Purple on this page. For example, the Purple HEX color code is #A020F0. We offer a variety of color palette, variances, and an expert color mixer to develop color schemes. Related colors for Purple are:
- Promiscuous Pink color code is (187.0, 17.0, 238.0).
- Pink Pride color code is (239.0, 29.0, 231.0).
- Flamingo Queen color code is (204.0, 51.0, 255.0).
- Epink color code is (221.0, 51.0, 255.0).
- Neon Purple color code is (176.0, 38.0, 255.0).
- Voluptuous Violet color code is (119.0, 17.0, 221.0).
- Magento color code is (191.0, 60.0, 255.0).
- Flirtatious Flamingo color code is (204.0, 34.0, 255.0).
- Sweet Desire color code is (170.0, 51.0, 238.0).
- Cotton Candy Explosions color code is (221.0, 34.0, 255.0).
These values can help you match the specific shade and find complementary colors. Looking for a different shade of purple? Our color mixer expertly generates nine different shades and eighteen color variances.
At ourpastimes.com, we are a creative team of product designers, engineers, and data scientists who want to make the internet a better place. We have poured over color theory, the math is tougher than you think, and built a showcase for color combinations.
We started by building a great virtual color mixer. We hope everyone has seen a color wheel. Personally, I loved the color wheel in my art classroom growing up. The acrylic paints like Titanium White, Burnt sienna, Dioxazine Purple make combining colors visceral and our color mixer virtually offers that visceral feeling of color mixing paints. Use our color mixer to build your next color scheme!
The color wheel pickers showcase 12 main colors. The three primary colors are red, green, and blue. When combined together, the primary colors create pure white light. Secondary colors result from mixing two primary colors:
- Red and Green make Yellow.
- Green and Blue make Cyan.
- Blue and Red make Magenta .
Combining a secondary color and a primary color yields tertiary colors. There are six tertiary colors. The six color names are orange, chartreuse green, spring green, azure, violet and rose. Colors continue to expand, for example, halfway between blue and violet is indigo, color code #4B0082, and violet is halfway between blue and purple.
So, the color wheel includes twelve main colors: red, orange, yellow, chartreuse green, green, spring green, cyan, azure, blue, violet, magenta, and rose.
But how do you mix paint color? To mix acrylic paint to make gold you mix in a small quantity of brown paint (approximately one part brown to 10 parts yellow). Our color mixer is expert at mixing color by parts. Adjust the color levels with an easy toggle and we handle the math to generate the resulting hex code, RGB and HSL.
Included in our color pages are color palettes, we generate color combinations between three and six colors. We call each different color mixture “palette variances.” Each color palette variance includes eighteen color mixes with HEX code displayed.
A third component we provide on this page is color shades. For example, shades of Purple include Promiscuous Pink, Pink Pride, Flamingo Queen, Epink, Neon Purple, Voluptuous Violet, Magento, Flirtatious Flamingo, Sweet Desire, and Cotton Candy Explosions. We offer nine tints and shades for each color. A color shade is found by adjusting the color saturation to find a darker hue. A color tint is a lighter color. For example, pink is a tint of red.
