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Guide to the Color Purple

Dive deep into the color purple. Find color palettes, get the codes for adding ’em to your designs—explore your color-dreaming heart out.

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Purple color codes

Nail the exact color purple in your design by using the code from any one of these systems for color identification.

Hex	#A020F0
RGB	r: 160, g: 32, b: 240
HSL	h: 277°, s: 87%, l: 53%
HSV	h: 277°, s: 87%, v: 94%
CMYK	c: 33%, m: 87%, y: 0%, k: 6%

Purple color palettes

Complementary

Split Complementary

Triadic

Tetradic

Analogous

Monochromatic

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The color purple in percentages

If you're identifying color for pretty much anything digital, you're working in an RGB colorspace. If the project you're working on requires percentage representation, purple is made of 63% red, 13% green, and 94% blue.

If you're identifying color for a print project, you're most likely using a CMYK colorspace—the percentages are 33% cyan, 87% magenta, 0% yellow, 6% black.