Tyrian Purple Color Codes
Tyrian Purple is a very dark, vivid magenta with the hex code #66023C, RGB values of 102, 2, 60 and an HSL value of hsl(325, 96%, 20%).
| HEX | #66023C |
|---|---|
| RGB | 102, 2, 60 |
| HSL | hsl(325, 96%, 20%) |
| HSV | 325°, 98%, 40% |
| CMYK | 0%, 98%, 41%, 60% |
| LAB | 20.81, 43.87, -5.98 |
| CIELCHuv | 20.81, 48.67, 345.53° |
- Nearest Pantone
- PMS 242 C ΔE 8.2 · approximate
- Nearest CSS name
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purpleΔE 35.2
Source Wikipedia, List of colors
Tyrian Purple Color Hex Code
The Tyrian Purple color hex code is #66023C. Those six digits are three pairs, 66 for red, 02 for green and 3C for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.
#66023C
Tyrian Purple Color RGB Code
The Tyrian Purple RGB code is rgb(102, 2, 60). Red carries the most light at 102 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.
rgb(102, 2, 60)
Tyrian Purple Color HSV Code
The Tyrian Purple HSV code is 325°, 98%, 40%. Read it as a hue of 325 degrees, 98% saturation and 40% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.
325°, 98%, 40%
Tyrian Purple Color CIELChuv Code
The Tyrian Purple CIELCHuv code is 20.81, 48.67, 345.53°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 21 means dark to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 49 is how far it sits from grey.
20.81, 48.67, 345.53°
Tonal scale
What are Tyrian Purple Color Palettes?
A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.
Shades, toward black
Tints, toward white
Tones, toward grey
Palettes
What are Tyrian Purple Color Palette Codes?
Each of these is a hue rotation from #66023C. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.
Complementary
Half a turn away is #02662C, a dark, vivid spring green. This is the widest separation the wheel offers, and the reason complementary pairs are the default for anything that must stand out. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.
Analogous
Either side sit #5E0266 and #66020A, 30 degrees out. Low tension by construction: useful when you need several related tones that still feel like one choice.
Triadic
#3C6602 and #023C66 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.
Split-complementary
Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #0A6602 and #02665E. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.
Tetradic
Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #02662C, and #665E02 with #020A66. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.
Accessibility
Contrast checker: is Tyrian Purple accessible?
Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.
White background
12.81:112.81
contrast ratio on white background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Passes | Passes |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Passes | Passes |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Passes | n/a |
Black background
1.64:11.64
contrast ratio on black background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Fails | Fails |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Fails | Fails |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Fails | n/a |
Tyrian Purple clears WCAG AA against white at 12.81:1, so it is safe for body copy as well as headings. Text placed on it should be white, which gives 12.81:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.
Color vision
How Tyrian Purple looks with color blindness
Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.
Protanopia
About 1% of men#4E4D34
Tyrian Purple changes substantially here. ΔE 53.7
No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.
Deuteranopia
About 1% of men#515632
Tyrian Purple changes substantially here. ΔE 60.3
No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.
Tritanopia
About 1 in 10,000#642D2B
Tyrian Purple changes substantially here. ΔE 27.6
No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.
Achromatopsia
About 1 in 30,000#323232
Tyrian Purple changes substantially here. ΔE 44.3
No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.
To a deuteranope, the most common form, Tyrian Purple reads as #515632. That is a shift of ΔE 60.3, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 60.3. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.
Snippets
Using Tyrian Purple in code
:root {
--tyrian-purple: #66023C;
}
.example {
color: var(--tyrian-purple);
}// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'tyrian-purple': '#66023C',
},
},
}// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let tyrianPurple = Color(
red: 0.400,
green: 0.008,
blue: 0.235
)<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="tyrian_purple">#66023C</color>// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const tyrianPurple = Color(0xFF66023C);