#665D6Ea muted purple

At a glance#665D6E, oklch(49.3% 0.029 309.1), is a muted purple, a near match for Salt Box #685E6E or Sedona Shadow #665F70. Its hue sits mid-wheel, neither warm nor cool. Pair it with a warm-leaning light lemon #F0EFAF as an accent, a cool bold blue #3B5AA4 for harmony, and a vivid purple #9641CD the same color turned up. Try it as a text color on light backgrounds or a tinted neutral, and it holds AA contrast against white and prints exactly on coated presses.
Color codes

#665D6E in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

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Color family

What kind of purple is #665D6E?

Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is #665D6E's, measured rather than asserted.

#665D6E's Munsell numbers: hue 3.8P, value 4.0 (how light), chroma 2.2 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block grayish purple, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 2.2 is low. This is a greyed, muted purple, nearer neutral than vivid, which is why it reads as a surface rather than an accent.

There's still some room before it hits the edge of what your screen can show for this hue. It could go a little more saturated and stay in gamut.

Munsell coordinates and block from the ISCC-NBS system, computed by Rhapsody's own renotation inversion.

Tints & shades

Shades of #665D6E, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #665D6E. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, purple-700.

Tints (light surfaces; dark text passes on every one)

Midtones (the color at full strength, for brand & accent work)

Shades (dark surfaces; light text passes on every one)

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Accessibility

Is #665D6E accessible? Contrast with white & black

Strong contrast makes your work readable by everyone, and meets the WCAG standard accessibility law points at. AA is the floor; AAA is the tier worth aiming for in body text. White text on #665D6E passes AA. For AAA, use its scale. Every strip below is one surface, and the marks are the steps that reach AAA on it.

Rows are text, columns are background · 64 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

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Print

#665D6E in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

Every held press standard prints this color exactly as it is.

In CMYK, #665D6E is . That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.

On press (what each standard prints)

CGATS21 CRPC1 (coldset news) within tolerance
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 1.8, under the 2.5 a press run varies by

GRACoL 2013 Uncoated (CRPC3) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

GRACoL 2013 (CRPC6) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

PSO Coated v3 (FOGRA51) prints exactly
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in gamut · no shift

Coated FOGRA39 prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Japan Color 2011 Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

APTEC Flexo Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

CGATS21 CRPC7 (extended gamut) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK held to prints the color exactly.

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The strip shows this page's tints and shades on screen, then through a standard GRACoL 2013 conversion.

The Purples

Colors similar to #665D6E

This color sits solidly in the middle of The Purples. Explore The Purples

The row runs cooler on the left, warmer on the right.

The wheel's warm pole sits near Pumpkin, its cool pole near Goluboy.

Named colors near this one: Salt Box #685E6E (via Name that Color) · Sedona Shadow #665F70 (via color-name-list) · Violet Haze #675B72 (via color-name-list) · Smoky #605D6B (via color-name-list) · Fashionista #66616F (via color-name-list)

Pairings

Colors that go with #665D6E

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a light green #B0E39D. Rhapsody's pick is the split complement, just to one side of it, a livelier pair.

The accent is for the moments that need attention, the harmony for the ones that need calm; the vivid is the same color with the volume up, for when it has to shout.

Downloads

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#665D6E color codes: hex #665D6E, RGB, HSL, CMYK, and OKLCH, from Rhapsody
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The full tonal scale of #665D6E, 13 steps from light to dark with every hex, from Rhapsody
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#665D6E paired with a warm-leaning light lemon #F0EFAF, a cool bold blue #3B5AA4, a vivid purple #9641CD: hex values and roles, from Rhapsody
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