#201443 is a deep, cool purple. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It is too dark to lead as a primary accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #201443 works with other colors. Named schemes with #201443 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Russian Violet opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Russian Violet keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Russian Violet plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Russian Violet carries the depth in this luxury scheme, offset by a brass accent and near-black and held together by a deep neutral and an off-white surface.
Russian Violet is the single accent in this high-contrast editorial system — set on near-white paper against near-black ink, with a warm grey and a desaturated tint of Russian Violet carrying the quiet middle.
How #201443 actually behaves in design work — read from its OKLCH lightness, chroma and hue, not just its raw numbers. Ten signals to help you decide where this color earns its place.
Not a swatch to memorise — a color to build with. Here is #201443 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #201443;
--color-base-rgb: 32 20 67;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(23.8% 0.085 290.2);
--color-50: #F5F3FC;
--color-100: #E5DFF6;
--color-200: #CBC0EC;
--color-300: #A695DA;
--color-400: #836CC6;
--color-500: #634BAA;
--color-600: #503F83;
--color-700: #3D325D;
--color-800: #2A233D;
--color-900: #1B1726;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
russian-violet: {
50: '#F5F3FC',
100: '#E5DFF6',
200: '#CBC0EC',
300: '#A695DA',
400: '#836CC6',
500: '#634BAA',
600: '#503F83',
700: '#3D325D',
800: '#2A233D',
900: '#1B1726',
},
}
$base: #201443; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F5F3FC; $base-100: #E5DFF6; $base-200: #CBC0EC; $base-300: #A695DA; $base-400: #836CC6; $base-500: #634BAA; $base-600: #503F83; $base-700: #3D325D; $base-800: #2A233D; $base-900: #1B1726; $base-hover: #191035; $base-subtle: #B2A5DA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#201443",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F5F3FC",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E5DFF6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#CBC0EC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#A695DA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#836CC6",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#634BAA",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#503F83",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#3D325D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#2A233D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1B1726",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}