#333360 is a deep, cool purple. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, quietly premium. It reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #333360 works with other colors. Named schemes with #333360 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Yale Blue opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Yale Blue keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Yale Blue plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Yale Blue 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.
Yale Blue 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 Yale Blue carrying the quiet middle.
How #333360 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 #333360 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #333360;
--color-base-rgb: 51 51 96;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(34.5% 0.077 281.6);
--color-50: #F5F5FA;
--color-100: #E4E4F1;
--color-200: #CACAE3;
--color-300: #A4A4CC;
--color-400: #7F7FB3;
--color-500: #5F5F96;
--color-600: #4E4E74;
--color-700: #3B3B54;
--color-800: #292938;
--color-900: #1A1A23;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
yale-blue: {
50: '#F5F5FA',
100: '#E4E4F1',
200: '#CACAE3',
300: '#A4A4CC',
400: '#7F7FB3',
500: '#5F5F96',
600: '#4E4E74',
700: '#3B3B54',
800: '#292938',
900: '#1A1A23',
},
}
$base: #333360; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F5F5FA; $base-100: #E4E4F1; $base-200: #CACAE3; $base-300: #A4A4CC; $base-400: #7F7FB3; $base-500: #5F5F96; $base-600: #4E4E74; $base-700: #3B3B54; $base-800: #292938; $base-900: #1A1A23; $base-hover: #29294D; $base-subtle: #BCBCD5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#333360",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F5F5FA",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E4E4F1",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#CACAE3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#A4A4CC",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#7F7FB3",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#5F5F96",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#4E4E74",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#3B3B54",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#292938",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1A1A23",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}