Midnight Byzantium color palette — #E9DAFB · #8E3DAF · #660069 · #2B001E · #040001
Built around Plum, softened by Royal Purple — the whole palette hums with creativity and depth.
The five colors
- Thistle (#E9DAFB): A whisper-light, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.
- Plum (#8E3DAF): A full-bodied, vivid violet — the color of a velvet chair.
- Royal Purple (#660069): A deep, shadowed, vivid pink — the color of neon signs at night.
- Ink (#2B001E): A deep, shadowed, balanced pink — the color of neon signs at night.
- Black (#040001): A deep, shadowed, dusty rose — the color of pressed rose petals.
Feels like: Creativity, Depth, Luxury. Tagged dark.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Midnight Byzantium into a complete token system: semantic roles from primary to success, an 11-stop OKLCH scale per role, a WCAG AA/AAA and APCA contrast matrix, an auto-derived dark mode and 11 export formats including CSS custom properties, Tailwind, Figma Variables and shadcn/ui.
Similar palettes
- Grape Meadow color palette (#E9DFFB, #831FA6, #520051, #340024, #1B0001)
- Softworn Byzantium color palette (#DAE0FC, #885CCF, #9600A3, #6B003B, #1A0003)
- Plum Balcony color palette (#F7DFF1, #B62C86, #7F0042, #39000F, #040000)
- Powdered Aubergine color palette (#DFE7FF, #7059DE, #520094, #2B0040, #030004)
- Sunlit Plum Quarry color palette (#EDE5FA, #AA2D94, #00653D, #4E0042, #000201)
- Misty Drift color palette (#FBE4F1, #940070, #4F4700, #003847, #040002)
- Dusty Atelier color palette (#E7DAFA, #EC9DA9, #C76C52, #5A2A6B, #040001)
- Plum Boulevard color palette (#F6D5E5, #EF6490, #B90043, #70010B, #1F0400)
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