#5B4E77
Eggplant · dark cool purple
About #5B4E77
With the hex code #5B4E77, this is a dark purple with a moderately saturated character. Its RGB recipe is 36% red, 31% green and 47% blue, while a printer would mix 24% cyan, 34% magenta, 0% yellow and 53% black. It reads as a cool colour.
If you had to name it, it is somewhere between Eggplant and Prussian Blue — a ΔE of 17.8 — followed by Prussian Blue. For maximum hue contrast, pair it with its complement #6A774E, a fern shade.
In design, a dark colour like this works best for headings, body text, footers and dark-mode backgrounds. Put white text on top of it — 7.50:1, a WCAG AAA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (7.50:1).
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ΔE measures visible difference: under 2 is barely noticeable, over 10 is clearly different.
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›What colour is #5B4E77?
With the hex code #5B4E77, this is a dark purple with a moderately saturated character. Its RGB recipe is 36% red, 31% green and 47% blue, while a printer would mix 24% cyan, 34% magenta, 0% yellow and 53% black. It reads as a cool colour.
›What text colour should I use on #5B4E77?
Use white text. White on #5B4E77 has a contrast ratio of 7.50:1 (AAA).
›What colours go with #5B4E77?
Its complementary colour is #6A774E, and analogous partners are #4E5677 and #6F4E77.