Photo in the color Patriarch
Pictured: Patriarch
rgb(128, 0, 128)
#800080

Purple (HTML/CSS) #800080 RGB Color Code

Also known as Patriarch

CSS keyword purple.

Purple (HTML/CSS) (#800080) is a vivid, dark purple. In RGB it is made of 50% red, 0% green and 50% blue (R 128, G 0, B 128). The red channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 300°, 100% saturation and 25% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.061, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 0% cyan, 100% magenta, 0% yellow and 50% 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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Purple (HTML/CSS) color codes

#800080 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #800080 Valid CSS
CSS name purple Valid CSS
RGB rgb(128, 0, 128) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(300, 100%, 25%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(300, 100%, 50%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(300 0% 50%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(0%, 100%, 0%, 50%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(42.09% 0.1935 328.36) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(42.09% 0.1647 -0.1015) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(29.69% 56.11 -36.29) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(29.69% 66.83 327.11) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.4584 0.0798 0.4848) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.128 0.0615 0.2094) Valid CSS
Decimal 8388736 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.0615. Nearest web-safe color: #990099.

Mix Purple (HTML/CSS) with other colors

See what #800080 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.

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Use Purple (HTML/CSS) 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--purple-html-css: #800080;
Sass variable$purple-html-css: #800080;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-purple-html-css: #800080; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'purple-html-css': '#800080' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.502, green: 0, blue: 0.502)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.502, green: 0, blue: 0.502, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="purple_html_css">#FF800080</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF800080)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #800080 (9.42:1, AAA). Here is how #800080 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
9.42:1 on white
APCA Lc 90
AAA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.23:1 on black
APCA Lc -13
Fails AATry #B546B4

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 Purple (HTML/CSS)

#800080 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

#800080 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.

About the color Purple (HTML/CSS)

Halfway between red and blue

This is the purple of the CSS keyword purple, one of the 16 basic colors of HTML 4. Its code, #800080, sets red and blue to 128 and leaves out green. That puts its hue exactly halfway between red and blue. Its lightness is also halfway between white and black. The Wikipedia article on purple shades suggests this is likely why it was chosen.

A clash with X11

The X11 color names of 1987 also define a purple, but it is #A020F0, a brighter and bluer color. CSS kept the HTML value, so the two lists disagree. This is one of only a few names where web colors and X11 colors clash. On this site, Purple is the X11 version.

An old name for #800080 is patriarch, first recorded in 1925. The X11 purple has its own old name, veronica. White text on HTML purple reaches 9.42 to 1. For the full list of keywords, see the CSS color names page.

Purple (HTML/CSS) in a user interface

A sample app screen with #800080 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #800080 as it is. On the dark theme, #800080 is too hard to read as text (1.89:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #C353C1 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Purple (HTML/CSS)

These schemes turn the hue of #800080 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
this#800080#008000

Analogous

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

Open palette
#400080this#800080#800040

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#800080#808000#008080

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#800080#408000#008040

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#800080#800000#008000#008080

Square

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

Open palette
this#800080#804000#008000#004080

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#660066#B900B9#FF0DFF#FF60FF#FFB3FF

Gradients with Purple (HTML/CSS)

Four CSS gradients made from #800080. 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, #E8D0E6, #800080);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #800080, #1F001F);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #400080, #800080, #800040);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #800080, #82555C, #808000);

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Shades, tints and tones of Purple (HTML/CSS)

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)

Purple (HTML/CSS) sits at step 700. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    FFF2FE
  2. 100
    FFE2FD
  3. 200
    FFC4FB
  4. 300
    F89AF4
  5. 400
    DF73DC
  6. 500
    C152BF
  7. 600
    A335A1
  8. 700
    800080
  9. 800
    6B146A
  10. 900
    4F0F4E
  11. 950
    2E0E2D

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #800080 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 4006 Traffic purple#992572, close (ΔE 7.9)Tailwind CSSfuchsia-800 #86198F, very close (ΔE 3.4)CSS color namespurple #800080, exact match (ΔE 0.0)

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.