🎨 Shades of Purple

26 purple tones, each one click from your clipboard — 16 classic named colors plus a generated tint scale for building UI palettes. Purple was once literally worth its weight in silver — Tyrian dye made it royalty's color, and the association with luxury, creativity, and mystery never faded. Digital brands use it to feel imaginative without childishness.

• Deep Purple#36013f
• Eggplant#614051
• Indigo#4b0082
• Royal Purple#7851a9
• Violet#8f00ff
• Purple#800080
• Amethyst#9966cc
• Orchid#da70d6
• Plum#8e4585
• Medium Purple#9370db
• Lilac#c8a2c8
• Mauve#e0b0ff
• Wisteria#c9a0dc
• Lavender#e6e6fa
• Thistle#d8bfd8
• Periwinkle Purple#be93e4
• Purple 100#290949
• Purple 200#3d0d6d
• Purple 300#521291
• Purple 400#6616b6
• Purple 500#7a1bda
• Purple 600#8f37e6
• Purple 700#a35ceb
• Purple 800#b880ef
• Purple 900#cca4f4
• Purple 1000#e0c9f8

Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Using purple well

Deep violets with gold accents read regal; lavender with sage gives the softest modern pastel pairing. Purple sits between red's energy and blue's calm — shift your shade warmer or cooler to steer the mood.

Need variations of a specific shade? Copy its hex into the palette generator for harmonies, or the contrast checker to verify text passes WCAG on top of it.

Frequently asked questions

What are the most popular shades of purple?

The classics are Deep Purple, Eggplant, Indigo, Royal Purple, Violet, Purple — the named swatches at the top of this page. Click any of them to copy the hex code.

What do the numbered shades (100–1000) mean?

They're a generated lightness scale of one representative hue, in the naming style design systems like Tailwind and Material use — low numbers dark, high numbers light. Use them as a ready-made UI ramp.

How do I get RGB or HSL instead of hex?

Copy the hex here, then paste it into our HEX to RGB converter — it returns RGB and HSL together, and the color picker gives sliders for fine-tuning.