Dark Purple Hex Codes: 52 Deep, dark shades

These are the deep, dark shades of purple in Tintly's color library: 52 of the 168 purple shades. Dark shades give text, headers and the base of a dark theme. They carry white text easily.

Dark purple shades with hex codes

How to use them

Use a dark shade for headings and body text on light pages, and as the background of a dark section with a light shade on top.

Standouts in this group

• Darkest: Obsidian Shard (#060313), at 12% lightness.
• Lightest: Galactic Purple (#472E97), at 40% lightness.
• Most saturated: Extraviolet (#661188).
• Best text color on white: Obsidian Shard (#060313), at 20.38:1.

What the numbers say

Across all 168 purple shades in the library, lightness runs from 12% to 86%. 104 of them reach 4.5 to 1 on white, so they can be used as text on a light page, and 58 reach 4.5 to 1 on near-black, so they can be used as text on a dark page. The rest are for fills, surfaces and large type, where the requirement is lower. Within the deep, dark shades the figures are different: 52 of 52 pass on white.

Pairing with other families

The base purple (#7B3FE4) separates best from beige (4.06:1), yellow (3.48:1) and orange (2.17:1). Because purple stands for royalty, luxury and imagination, those pairings carry the most contrast of both color and meaning.

• Purple and beige: see the combinations in soft, bold and dark versions.
• Purple and yellow: see the combinations in soft, bold and dark versions.
• Purple and orange: see the combinations in soft, bold and dark versions.