#201D44 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 #201D44 works with other colors. Named schemes with #201D44 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 #201D44 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 #201D44 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #201D44;
--color-base-rgb: 32 29 68;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(25.8% 0.071 283.7);
--color-50: #F5F4FB;
--color-100: #E3E2F3;
--color-200: #C9C6E6;
--color-300: #A29ED1;
--color-400: #7D78BA;
--color-500: #5D579E;
--color-600: #4C487A;
--color-700: #3A3758;
--color-800: #28273A;
--color-900: #1A1924;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
russian-violet: {
50: '#F5F4FB',
100: '#E3E2F3',
200: '#C9C6E6',
300: '#A29ED1',
400: '#7D78BA',
500: '#5D579E',
600: '#4C487A',
700: '#3A3758',
800: '#28273A',
900: '#1A1924',
},
}
$base: #201D44; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F5F4FB; $base-100: #E3E2F3; $base-200: #C9C6E6; $base-300: #A29ED1; $base-400: #7D78BA; $base-500: #5D579E; $base-600: #4C487A; $base-700: #3A3758; $base-800: #28273A; $base-900: #1A1924; $base-hover: #1A1736; $base-subtle: #B1AED4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#201D44",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F5F4FB",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E3E2F3",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C9C6E6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#A29ED1",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#7D78BA",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#5D579E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#4C487A",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#3A3758",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#28273A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1A1924",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}