Prelude#D0C0E5, a bright purple
Prelude in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more
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What kind of purple is Prelude?
Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is Prelude's, measured rather than asserted.
Prelude's Munsell numbers: hue 3.8P, value 8.0 (how light), chroma 5.3 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block very light purple, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 5.3 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.
Shades of Prelude, lighter and darker
For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #D0C0E5. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, prelude-300.
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)
Most tools mix. Rhapsody measures.
Paste any color. The whole system comes back, contrast-checked before you see it.
The window on the right was generated from #D0C0E5, like this whole page.
Is Prelude 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. Black text on #D0C0E5 clears WCAG AAA. 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.
Ship the audit, not screenshots.
Run #D0C0E5 against the colors you actually ship, every pairing and any target, and export it: exact ratios, the AA tier, APCA, in one file.
The audit on the right was calibrated from #D0C0E5, like this whole page.
Prelude in CMYK: one value for files, one per press
Presses move this color a little, by less than a print run varies anyway, so a printer would call it a match. The pairs below show where each standard lands.
In CMYK, #D0C0E5 is . That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.
On press (what each standard prints)
shifts ΔE00 2.2, under the 2.5 a press run varies by
shifts ΔE00 3.2, 1.3× the 2.5 a run varies by
shifts ΔE00 2.3, under the 2.5 a press run varies by
shifts ΔE00 2.3, under the 2.5 a press run varies by
shifts ΔE00 1.5, under the 2.5 a press run varies by
shifts ΔE00 1.9, under the 2.5 a press run varies by
shifts ΔE00 1.3, under the 2.5 a press run varies by
Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK above is the closest that standard can get, near enough that a press run's own variation is the larger difference.
No surprises at the printer.
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The strip shows this page's tints and shades on screen, then through a standard GRACoL 2013 conversion.
Colors similar to Prelude
Here are other colors similar to Prelude along with accessible text pairings and whether or not they're print-safe. Explore The Purples
| Light Lavender | Light Lavender | #DFC5FE | black text · AAA | ✕ shifts on press |
| French Lilac | French Lilac | #ECC7EE | black text · AAA | ✕ shifts on press |
| Pale Lilac | Pale Lilac | #E4CBFF | black text · AAA | ✕ shifts on press |
| Light Lilac | Light Lilac | #EDC8FF | black text · AAA | ✕ shifts on press |
| Light Lavendar | Light Lavendar | #EFC0FE | black text · AAA | ✕ shifts on press |
| Pale Lavender | Pale Lavender | #EECFFE | black text · AAA | ✕ shifts on press |
| Very Light Purple | Very Light Purple | #F6CEFC | black text · AAA | ✕ shifts on press |
| Pale Mauve | Pale Mauve | #FED0FC | black text · AAA | ✕ shifts on press |
| White Pointer | White Pointer | #FEF8FF | black text · AAA | lighter than the paper |
Colors that go with Prelude
The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a light green #B8E19C. 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.
Take Prelude with you
The work on this page doesn't stay here. Save a card and the color arrives in your file, your deck or your board already decided.
Your system is already built.
Rhapsody built it before you even asked: the scale, the neutrals, the utilities, every pairing calibrated.
This page's whole theme is built from one color. Palette does the same for yours: every step calibrated, every pairing checked, press included.
Every color on this page was calibrated, not mixed.
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