#201549 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 #201549 works with other colors. Named schemes with #201549 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 #201549 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 #201549 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #201549;
--color-base-rgb: 32 21 73;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(24.6% 0.092 287.3);
--color-50: #F5F3FC;
--color-100: #E4DFF6;
--color-200: #CAC0ED;
--color-300: #A394DB;
--color-400: #7F6BC7;
--color-500: #5F4AAB;
--color-600: #4E3F83;
--color-700: #3B315E;
--color-800: #29233E;
--color-900: #1A1726;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
russian-violet: {
50: '#F5F3FC',
100: '#E4DFF6',
200: '#CAC0ED',
300: '#A394DB',
400: '#7F6BC7',
500: '#5F4AAB',
600: '#4E3F83',
700: '#3B315E',
800: '#29233E',
900: '#1A1726',
},
}
$base: #201549; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F5F3FC; $base-100: #E4DFF6; $base-200: #CAC0ED; $base-300: #A394DB; $base-400: #7F6BC7; $base-500: #5F4AAB; $base-600: #4E3F83; $base-700: #3B315E; $base-800: #29233E; $base-900: #1A1726; $base-hover: #191139; $base-subtle: #B1A6DA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#201549",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F5F3FC",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E4DFF6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#CAC0ED",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#A394DB",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#7F6BC7",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#5F4AAB",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#4E3F83",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#3B315E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#29233E",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1A1726",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}