Plum is a muted purple with a red undertone. #8E4585 sits at 307° hue, between purple and magenta, and its 35% saturation is what keeps it from looking neon. Grab the HEX codes from a scheme below, or build a custom plum palette around any base colour with the generator.
Deep Plum runs from a near-black #2B0A29 to a soft #B168A6, holding 304°–309° throughout. Plum & Berry sits a little higher in lightness and ends on a pinker #C77DBF. Soft Plum is the only set with tints you can use as backgrounds, #EFDCEC and #D9B5D3.
#2B0A29#4A1145#6B1D63#8E4585#B168A6#3D0E3B#5C1A57#7A2A73#9C4D96#C77DBF#EFDCEC#D9B5D3#BC8AB4#8E4585#6B2F63Anchored to a plum base — press Space or Generate to roll more schemes. Click a swatch to copy its HEX, lock one to keep it while the rest re-roll, then export as CSS, JSON or HEX.
Drag in the colour area or the hue bar, or type a HEX / RGB value, then build a scheme anchored to it.
Plum is dark and muted, so it sits well against warm neutrals rather than other saturated colours — cream, taupe or a soft dusty rose. Gold is the accent when the set needs a lift. Its neighbours are purple, which is bluer and brighter, and burgundy, which is redder and darker. Beauty, autumn fashion and wine branding use it.
:root block with each colour as a custom property (--color-1, --color-2 and so on), or copy a single HEX straight from any swatch above. On a narrow phone the generator shows four swatches instead of five, so the block you copy there carries four custom properties. Whatever the width, it rolls around #8E4585, the plum this page is seeded with, so the export stays on-hue. Copy JSON and Copy HEX give the same values as an array and as a comma-separated line.More palettes: Lavender palette · Dusty Rose palette · Rose Gold palette · all colours