Grayish Purple

The color code of Grayish Purple indicates, that blue is the main light source among the primary colors red, green and blue. Together with red it forms the basic color magenta, which determines the initial color impression along with the remains of blue. Learn more …

But due to the large amount of achromatic basic colors like black and white the colorfulness of Grayish Purple is strongly limited: The mixture ratio between chromatic and achromatic basic colors results in 14 % saturation. Since the inherent brightness of its contained basic colors sums up to a perceived brightness of 49 %, Grayish Purple is a rather dark color.

Hex	`#8e7499`
RGB	`rgb(142, 116, 153)`
HSL*	`hsl(282, 15%, 53%)`
Lab*	`52.44 17.24 -16.18`
CMYK*	`7% 24% 0% 40%`

* approximated values

Basic colors

46 %

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