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Muted Purple
#8B75A3

Muted Purple (#8B75A3) with RGB(139, 117, 163) and HSL(269, 20%, 55%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

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Active theme: Muted Purple

Values

Production-ready color values

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HEX

#8B75A3

RGB

rgb(139, 117, 163)

HSL

hsl(269, 20%, 55%)

HSV

hsv(269, 28%, 64%)

CMYK

cmyk(15%, 28%, 0%, 36%)

Decimal

9139619

Contrast

Accessibility checks

On white

4.06:1

On black

5.17:1

Shades

Tonal scale

#141018 #261F2E #3F334D #59476B #725C8A #8B75A3 #A594B8 #BAACC8 #D1C8DA #E8E3ED

90080070060050040030020010050

Accessibility

Contrast Audit

On White

FAIL

Text

4.06:1

On Black

WCAG AA PASS

Text

5.17:1

Vision

Simulator

protanopia

deuteranopia

tritanopia

Harmonies

Palette combinations from this base color

Open any harmony as a shareable palette route and keep refining from there.

Complementary

Open palette

#8B75A3 #8DA375

Triadic

Open palette

#8B75A3 #A38B75 #75A38B

Analogous

Open palette

#7576A3 #8075A3 #8B75A3 #9775A3 #A275A3

Split complementary

Open palette

#8B75A3 #A3A275 #76A375

Tetradic

Open palette

#8B75A3 #A37576 #8DA375 #75A3A2

Monochromatic

Open palette

#33293D #59476B #7F6699 #A594B8 #CCC2D6

Analysis

Design expert profile

Detailed psychological and professional strategy for this specific tone.

Muted Purple (#8B75A3) with RGB(139, 117, 163) and HSL(269, 20%, 55%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

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Developer Handoff

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CSS

/* Muted Purple */
color: #8B75A3;
background-color: #8B75A3;
border-color: #8B75A3;
box-shadow: 0 4px 24px #8b75a340;

Tailwind CSS

bg-[#8B75A3] text-[#8B75A3] border-[#8B75A3] ring-[#8B75A3]

SwiftUI

Color(red: 0.545, green: 0.459, blue: 0.639)

Flutter / Dart

Color(0xFF8B75A3)

Android XML

<color name="muted_purple">#8B75A3</color>

React Native

{ color: '#8B75A3' }

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About

About Muted Purple

This section gives the same kind of richer color context you’d expect from a dedicated color reference page.

Meaning

Muted Purple sits in the violet family with a core tone, so it holds enough weight for primary UI accents. It reads as calm, credible, and interface-friendly.

Applications

Muted Purple (#8B75A3) with RGB(139, 117, 163) and HSL(269, 20%, 55%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems. It performs better as foreground color on dark interfaces and dense contrast surfaces.

Family

Violet

Tone

Core

Temperature

cool

Keywords

violet, core, cool, hex-8b75a3, h-269, s-20

Conversion

Color conversions

Use these values in CSS, product docs, design tokens, and print-oriented workflows.

HEX

#8B75A3

RGB

rgb(139, 117, 163)

HSL

hsl(269, 20%, 55%)

HSV

hsv(269, 28%, 64%)

CMYK

cmyk(15%, 28%, 0%, 36%)

Variations

Shades and tonal variations

Build softer surfaces, deeper states, and a cleaner tonal system from the same base hue.

#141018 #261F2E #3F334D #59476B #725C8A #8B75A3 #A594B8 #BAACC8 #D1C8DA #E8E3ED

900

#141018

800

#261F2E

700

#3F334D

600

#59476B

500

#725C8A

400

#8B75A3

Color harmonies

Harmony-based palette routes

Move from a single color into full palette ideas based on common harmony systems.

Complementary

Open palette

#8B75A3 #8DA375

Triadic

Open palette

#8B75A3 #A38B75 #75A38B

Analogous

Open palette

#7576A3 #8075A3 #8B75A3 #9775A3 #A275A3

Split complementary

Open palette

#8B75A3 #A3A275 #76A375

Tetradic

Open palette

#8B75A3 #A37576 #8DA375 #75A3A2

Monochromatic

Open palette

#33293D #59476B #7F6699 #A594B8 #CCC2D6

Blindness simulator

Color blindness preview

These simulations help you judge whether the color keeps enough identity across common color-vision variations.

Protanopia

#818198

Red-sensitive cones are reduced, so warm reds and greens can collapse toward similar mid-tones.

Deuteranopia

#838495

Green-sensitive cones are reduced, which often compresses green and red distinctions.

Tritanopia

#8A8F8D

Blue-sensitive cones are reduced, which shifts blues and yellows toward flatter blends.

Contrast checker

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Use these quick checks to understand where the color is more reliable for text, icons, and UI foregrounds.

On white

4.06:1

Only large-text AA passes.

On black

5.17:1

AA passes for normal text.

Similar colors

Nearby color references

Use nearby colors when you want alternatives with a similar overall feel but a different hue or intensity.

Color libraries

Library-ready mappings

These mappings help you slot the color into CSS names, Tailwind-like scales, and semantic design tokens faster.

CSS named match

Muted Purple

Closest standard CSS name to #8B75A3 for developer-friendly reference and docs.

Design token

--color-violet-core

A token-friendly alias you can use in design systems, Tailwind maps, or CSS variables.

Tailwind-friendly scale

violet-500

A naming pattern that fits Tailwind-style scale systems and keeps #8B75A3 as the core value.

HSL token

269 20% 55%

Useful when your component library or theme layer stores semantic colors in HSL channels.

Color palettes

Palette ideas related to this color

These palette routes are pulled from the curated library based on RGB similarity, so you can branch into more complete systems quickly.

Muted Purple#8B75A3

UI Sandbox

Production-ready color values

Accessibility checks

Tonal scale

Contrast Audit

Simulator

Palette combinations from this base color

Design expert profile

Language

Copy for any framework

Share this color

Muted Purple

Nearby named colors

Closest real-world color

About Muted Purple

Color conversions

Shades and tonal variations

Harmony-based palette routes

Color blindness preview

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Nearby color references

Library-ready mappings

Palette ideas related to this color

Muted Purple
#8B75A3