Damson color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around damson. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Very dark purple, close to black. Named for the plum, and it behaves like espresso does among browns: a colour that can carry a whole dark scheme.

Damson hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#3A2244

HEX: #3A2244
RGB: rgb(58, 34, 68)
HSL: hsl(282, 33%, 20%)
OKLCH: oklch(29.9% 0.067 315.4)
On white: 14.07:1
On black: 1.49:1

Shades of damson

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Damson color values

#3A2244rgb(58, 34, 68)

Color spaces of #3a2244
RGB	58	34	68
HSL	282°	33%	20%
HSV	282°	50%	27%
CMYK	0.15	0.50	0.00	0.73
XYZ	3.3602	2.4610	5.7657
Yxy	2.4610	0.2900	0.2124
CIE-Lab	17.7415	18.6636	-16.9288
Hunter Lab	15.6877	10.7798	-10.8096
OKLCH	29.9%	0.067	315.4°

#3A2244 is 58 red, 34 green and 68 blue. No single channel dominates it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #333333.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	00111010	00100010	01000100
Octal	72	42	104
Decimal	58	34	68
Hex	3A	22	44

#3a2244 mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#3A2244
#341E3D
#2E1B36
#28172F
#221428
#1D1122
#170D1B
#110A14
#0B060D
#050306
#000000

#3a2244 mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#3A2244
#4D3856
#614E69
#75647C
#887A8E
#9C90A1
#B0A6B4
#C3BCC6
#D7D2D9
#EBE8EC
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red36.3%
Green21.3%
Blue42.5%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#3A2244
#1E3510

Triadic

#3A2244
#3F2800
#003535

Analogous

#3A2244
#441E35
#2B284D

Monochromatic

#020004
#020004
#1C0525
#3A2244
#5B4166
#7D6289
#A286AE

#3a2244 on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 1.49:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 14.07:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #3a2244

color: #3a2244;
background-color: #3a2244;
border: 3px solid #3a2244;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #3a2244;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(58, 34, 68, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(29.9% 0.067 315.4);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Damson on white measures 14.07:1 and on black 1.49:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.42:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

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