Ugly Purple

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

But due to the amount of achromatic basic colors like black and white the colorfulness of Ugly Purple is somewhat limited: The mixture ratio between chromatic and achromatic basic colors results in 37 % saturation. Since the inherent brightness of its contained basic colors sums up to a perceived brightness of 44 %, Ugly Purple is a rather dark color.

Hex	`#b556b3`
RGB	`rgb(181, 86, 179)`
HSL*	`hsl(301, 39%, 52%)`
Lab*	`51.54 51.29 -32.37`
CMYK*	`0% 52% 1% 29%`

* approximated values

Basic colors

36 %

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