Photo in the color Paynes grey
Pictured: Paynes grey, the closest color we have a photo of (#40404F)
rgb(55, 45, 82)
#372D52

Midnight Pie #372D52 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Midnight Pie (#372D52) is a muted, dark purple. In RGB it is made of 22% red, 18% green and 32% blue (R 55, G 45, B 82). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 256°, 29% saturation and 25% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.033, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 33% cyan, 45% magenta, 0% yellow and 68% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a cool color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Midnight Pie color codes

#372D52 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #372D52 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(55, 45, 82) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(256, 29%, 25%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(256, 45%, 32%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(256 18% 68%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(33%, 45%, 0%, 68%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(32.63% 0.0649 294.99) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(32.63% 0.0274 -0.0588) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(20.99% 11.95 -21.22) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(20.99% 24.35 299.38) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.2093 0.1779 0.3121) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.0404 0.033 0.0841) Valid CSS
Decimal 3616082 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.0330. Nearest web-safe color: #333366.

Mix Midnight Pie with other colors

See what #372D52 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

Use Midnight Pie in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--midnight-pie: #372D52;
Sass variable$midnight-pie: #372D52;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-midnight-pie: #372D52; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'midnight-pie': '#372D52' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.216, green: 0.176, blue: 0.322)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.216, green: 0.176, blue: 0.322, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="midnight_pie">#FF372D52</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF372D52)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #372D52 (12.65:1, AAA). Here is how #372D52 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
12.65:1 on white
APCA Lc 99
AAA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.66:1 on black
APCA Lc 0
Fails AATry #786E98

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Midnight Pie

#372D52 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#372D52 stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

Midnight Pie in a user interface

A sample app screen with #372D52 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #372D52 as it is. On the dark theme, #372D52 is too hard to read as text (1.40:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #847AA5 there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Midnight Pie

These schemes turn the hue of #372D52 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette

Gradients with Midnight Pie

Four CSS gradients made from #372D52. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #D3D1DB, #372D52);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #372D52, #080611);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #2D3652, #372D52, #4A2D52);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #372D52, #443341, #52372D);

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Shades, tints and tones of Midnight Pie

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Midnight Pie sits at step 900. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F7F5FF
  2. 100
    EEE9FF
  3. 200
    DCD6F4
  4. 300
    C3BBE0
  5. 400
    A59CC6
  6. 500
    897FAA
  7. 600
    6E658D
  8. 700
    574F73
  9. 800
    443D5B
  10. 900
    372D52
  11. 950
    1E1B27

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #372D52 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of purple or search the color library.