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#261a42 color: Prune Plum

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258°
100%

OKLCH

25.6%
0.073
295°
  • ≈ Midnight blue
  • Violet
  • Very dark
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • indigo-950
  • Black 74%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text16.04:1 · AALc -105
Black text1.31:1 · Below AALc 0

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About #261a42

#261a42 is a soft very dark violet color. In OKLCH it has 25.6% lightness, 0.073 chroma and a hue of 295°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 16.04:1 contrast and black text 1.31:1, so white text reads better.

The closest named color is Prune Plum (#211640). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is indigo-950.

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Lighter: #261a42 mixed with white

  1. 261a42
  2. 382e54
  3. 4b4365
  4. 5f5878
  5. 746e8a
  6. 8a859d
  7. a09cb0
  8. b7b4c3
  9. ceccd7
  10. e6e5eb

Darker: #261a42 mixed with black

  1. 261a42
  2. 201538
  3. 19102f
  4. 130c25
  5. 0d071c
  6. 080414
  7. 04020b
  8. 020105
  9. 010001
  10. 000000

Calmer: #261a42 with less saturation

  1. 261a42
  2. 261b3f
  3. 251d3c
  4. 251e39
  5. 241f36
  6. 242033
  7. 242030
  8. 24212d
  9. 23222a
  10. 232226