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Home/Colors/Plum Shade

Named color · #78738B

Plum Shade

Plum Shade is #78738B: rgb(120 115 139), hsl(252 9% 50%), oklch(0.568 0.037 294.7). See tints, shades, harmonies, WCAG & APCA contrast, and CSS, Tailwind v4 & SCSS code.

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#78738B

oklch(0.568 0.037 294.7)

Color conversions

HEX
#78738b
RGB
rgb(120 115 139)
HSL
hsl(252 9% 50%)
HWB
hwb(252 45% 45%)
OKLCH
oklch(0.568 0.037 294.7)
OKLab
oklab(0.568 0.015 -0.034)
CIE Lab
lab(49.54 5.82 -12.45)
LCH
lch(49.54 13.75 295)
CMYK
cmyk(14% 17% 0% 45%)

Tints · Shades · Tones

Tints

  • 858096
  • 918DA1
  • 9E9BAD
  • ACA9B8
  • B9B7C4
  • C7C5CF
  • D5D3DB
  • E3E2E7
  • F1F0F3

Shades

  • 676378
  • 575466
  • 484554
  • 393643
  • 2A2832
  • 1D1B23
  • 100F14
  • 050507
  • 010101

Tones

  • 79748A
  • 7A7689
  • 7A7788
  • 7B7887
  • 7C7A86
  • 7D7B85
  • 7E7C83
  • 7E7D82
  • 7F7F81

Color harmonies

Complementary +180°

  • 78738B

    Plum Shade

  • 767A61

    ≈ Northampton Trees

Analogous -30° +30°

  • 78738B

    Plum Shade

  • 6C778D

    ≈ Causeway

  • 827083

    ≈ Decorative Iris

Triadic +120° +240°

  • 78738B

    Plum Shade

  • 897263

    ≈ Tree Branch

  • 607E75

    ≈ Penzance

Split-complementary +150° +210°

  • 78738B

    Plum Shade

  • 81765E

    ≈ Covert Green

  • 6A7D6A

    ≈ Cricket Green

Tetradic +90° +180° +270°

  • 78738B

    Plum Shade

  • 8C6F6C

    ≈ Touch of Class

  • 767A61

    ≈ Northampton Trees

  • 5D7E81

    ≈ Stream Burble

Contrast & accessibility

Ag

On white

WCAG 4.54:1 · APCA Lc 72

AA
Ag

On black

WCAG 4.62:1 · APCA Lc 30

AA

Best text color: #000000

WCAG 4.62:1 (AA) · APCA Lc 30

Contrast pairs

  • #78738B / #FFFFFF
  • #78738B / #000000
  • #FFFFFF / #78738B
  • #000000 / #78738B

Code snippets

CSS

:root {
  --plum-shade: #78738b;
  --plum-shade-rgb: 120 115 139;
  --plum-shade-oklch: oklch(0.568 0.037 294.7);
}

.element {
  color: var(--plum-shade);
  background-color: hsl(252 9% 50%);
  border-color: oklch(0.568 0.037 294.7);
}

Tailwind CSS v4

@theme {
  --color-plum-shade: #78738b;
  --color-plum-shade-50: #f6f3ff;
  --color-plum-shade-100: #e9e6f3;
  --color-plum-shade-200: #d5d1e3;
  --color-plum-shade-300: #b9b4c9;
  --color-plum-shade-400: #9f9bb3;
  --color-plum-shade-500: #87829d;
  --color-plum-shade-600: #736e84;
  --color-plum-shade-700: #5c586a;
  --color-plum-shade-800: #43404e;
  --color-plum-shade-900: #2e2c36;
  --color-plum-shade-950: #1b1921;
}

SCSS

$plum-shade: #78738b;
$plum-shade-rgb: 120, 115, 139;
$plum-shade-light: mix(#fff, $plum-shade, 20%);
$plum-shade-dark: mix(#000, $plum-shade, 20%);

.element {
  color: $plum-shade;
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 2px rgba($plum-shade, 0.35);
}

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  • 71738C

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  • 7B7284

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  • 737486

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  • 73778F

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  • 807388

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  • 7D7485

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  • 747792

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