Shades of Purple

Explore the most common shades of purple with their hex codes. Find the perfect purple for your next design project.

From the deepest, most saturated tones to the lightest pastels, purple appears in nearly every design discipline — branding, interiors, fashion, and digital UI. The 30 shades below are the most commonly used named variants of purple, each with a precise hex code you can copy directly into your design tool.

Looking for the right pairing? See colors that go with purple. Need a different format? Try our format converters for HEX, RGB, HSL, OKLCH, and CMYK.

Featured shade

Lavender

Lavender is the canonical purple in this collection. Below is its full breakdown across every common color format — useful when you need the same color in CSS, a design tool, or a print workflow.

HEX#E6E6FA
RGBrgb(230, 230, 250)
HSLhsl(240, 67%, 94%)
OKLCHoklch(93.1% 0.027 286)
CMYKcmyk(8%, 8%, 0%, 2%)

Colors that go with purple

Purple sits between blue and red, so analogous pairings (magenta, navy, indigo) deepen it, while yellow (its complement) creates a striking contrast popular in editorial design.

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