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#7571BE

Royal Purple · medium cool blue

About #7571BE

With the hex code #7571BE, this is a medium blue with a moderately saturated character. Its RGB recipe is 46% red, 44% green and 75% blue, while a printer would mix 38% cyan, 41% magenta, 0% yellow and 25% black. It reads as a cool colour.

If you had to name it, it is somewhere between Royal Purple and Cornflower — a ΔE of 16.8 — followed by Cornflower. For maximum hue contrast, pair it with its complement #BABE71, a matcha shade.

In design, a medium colour like this works best for illustrations, icons and secondary elements. Black text reads best on it at 4.86:1 (a WCAG AA pass).

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Red117
Green113
Blue190

Closest named colours

Royal Purple
#7851A9 · ΔE 16.8
Cornflower
#6495ED · ΔE 18.1
Denim
#1560BD · ΔE 18.8

ΔE measures visible difference: under 2 is barely noticeable, over 10 is clearly different.

Text on #7571BE

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on royal purple #7571BE.
4.32:1AA Large
Black heading text
Body copy set on royal purple #7571BE.
4.86:1AA

Colour-blindness preview

How #7571BE appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#7571BE
Protanopia (no red cones)
#577CC1
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#5577BC
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#61808E

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Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #7571BE?

With the hex code #7571BE, this is a medium blue with a moderately saturated character. Its RGB recipe is 46% red, 44% green and 75% blue, while a printer would mix 38% cyan, 41% magenta, 0% yellow and 25% black. It reads as a cool colour.

›What text colour should I use on #7571BE?

Use black text. Black on #7571BE has a contrast ratio of 4.86:1 (AA).

›What colours go with #7571BE?

Its complementary colour is #BABE71, and analogous partners are #7194BE and #9B71BE.