#856ca2 color: Bitter Violet
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Bitter Violet#856ca2
- ≈ Slate
- Purple
- Medium
- Muted
- Neutral
- mauve-500
- Black 36%
Looks the same on every screen.
White text4.50:1 · AALc -77
Black text4.66:1 · AALc 33
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About #856ca2
#856ca2 is a muted purple color. In OKLCH it has 57.6% lightness, 0.086 chroma and a hue of 305°.
Looks the same on every screen.
White text on it reaches 4.5:1 contrast and black text 4.66:1, so white text reads better.
The closest named color is Bitter Violet (#856d9e). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is mauve-500.