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Purple Grey #866f85

Purple Grey is the registered name for #866f85. Below: values, variations, harmonies, contrast and ready-to-paste CSS.

Color values

The same color written in every notation you are likely to need. Click any row to copy it.

What HEX means

#866f85 packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: 86 red, 6f green, 85 blue.

What RGB means

Red 134, green 111, blue 133 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 303° (pink), saturation 9%, lightness 48%. HSL is handy when you want the same hue a little lighter or less saturated.

Why OKLCH

OKLCH is a perceptual space — changing its lightness (57.1%) matches how your eye reads brightness far better than HSL, which is why the palette below is generated in it.

Accessibility & contrast

WCAG requires at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text at level AA. Use this to decide whether white or black text belongs on this color.

AaThis text is readable
White text4.54:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text4.63:1
AA AAA AA Large

UI preview

How this color behaves in a real interface, not just as a square.

Badge

A paragraph with a themed link inside it.

Information

An alert accented with this color.

Progress

Tints & shades

A tint mixes the color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. Click any swatch to open it.

Color harmonies

Schemes built by rotating the hue around the color wheel — the starting point for a coherent palette.

Complementary

Opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast.

Analogous

Neighbours on the wheel — calm and cohesive.

Triadic

Three hues 120° apart — vivid but balanced.

Split complementary

Softer than a straight complement.

Tetradic

Four hues — enough for a design system.

Palette generator

A Tailwind-style 50–950 ramp anchored on this color at step 500, generated in OKLCH so the steps feel evenly spaced.

:root {
  --primary-50: #fcf5fc;
  --primary-100: #f4e9f3;
  --primary-200: #e3d3e2;
  --primary-300: #cdbacc;
  --primary-400: #b099ae;
  --primary-500: #866f85;
  --primary-600: #755f74;
  --primary-700: #5f4b5e;
  --primary-800: #4c3a4b;
  --primary-900: #3d2e3d;
  --primary-950: #231922;
}

Gradient

A linear blend from this color to its complement, with the CSS ready to paste.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #866f85, #6f8570);

Nearest named colors

The closest matches from a corpus of about 31,900 named colours, ranked by ΔE (CIEDE2000) — a measure of how different two colours look. ΔE under 1 is nearly indistinguishable; around 10 is clearly different.

CSS code

Every common way to use this color in a stylesheet or a component.

color: #866f85;
background-color: #866f85;
:root {
  --color-primary: #866f85;
}
color: rgb(134 111 133);
color: oklch(57.1% 0.0432 327.5);
<div class="bg-[#866f85]">…</div>