Plum color: hex codes, shades and palettes

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

Plum is #DDA0DD, light purple. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and plum color palettes to copy.

Plum hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#DDA0DD

HEX: #DDA0DD
RGB: rgb(221, 160, 221)
HSL: hsl(300, 47%, 75%)
OKLCH: oklch(78.3% 0.108 326.5)
On white: 2.07:1
On black: 10.15:1

Shades of plum

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.

Plum color values

#DDA0DDrgb(221, 160, 221)

Color spaces of #dda0dd
RGB	221	160	221
HSL	300°	47%	75%
HSV	300°	28%	87%
CMYK	0.00	0.28	0.00	0.13
XYZ	55.4395	45.7360	74.3002
Yxy	45.7360	0.3159	0.2606
CIE-Lab	73.3739	32.5309	-21.9857
Hunter Lab	67.6284	27.9785	-17.7993
OKLCH	78.3%	0.108	326.5°

#DDA0DD is 221 red, 160 green and 221 blue. No single channel dominates it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #CC99CC.

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	11011101	10100000	11011101
Octal	335	240	335
Decimal	221	160	221
Hex	DD	A0	DD

#dda0dd 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.

#DDA0DD
#C690C6
#B080B0
#9A709A
#846084
#6E506E
#584058
#423042
#2C1F2C
#160F16
#000000

#dda0dd mixed with white

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

#DDA0DD
#E0A9E0
#E3B3E3
#E7BCE7
#EAC6EA
#EECFEE
#F1D9F1
#F4E2F4
#F8ECF8
#FBF5FB
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red36.7%
Green26.6%
Blue36.7%

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

#DDA0DD
#8ACB8F

Triadic

#DDA0DD
#D7B463
#54CCDB

Analogous

#DDA0DD
#F09BBA
#BFAAF6

Monochromatic

#6C366D
#905891
#B67BB6
#DDA0DD
#FFCBFF
#FFF5FF
#FFF5FF

#dda0dd on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 10.15:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 2.07:1

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 #dda0dd

color: #dda0dd;
background-color: #dda0dd;
border: 3px solid #dda0dd;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #dda0dd;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(221, 160, 221, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(78.3% 0.108 326.5);

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

Plum on white measures 2.07:1 and on black 10.15:1. 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 5.57:1.

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.

Related colors: purple, lavender, violet, lilac, indigo, eggplant. See every shade on the colors index.

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