Crayola crayon color
Crayola Eggplant #6E5160
Crayola Eggplant is shown here as #6E5160, the commonly published value for the crayon. It is a dark grayish wine in the pink family. In OKLCH it sits at lightness 0.471, chroma 0.045 and hue 346.5°. The nearest CSS named color is dimgray (#696969), ΔE2000 16.0 away.
- Relative luminance
- 0.1004
- OKLCH L · C · h
- 0.471 · 0.045 · 346.5
- Best text
- White 6.97:1
- Hue family
- Pink
#6E5160 color codes
- HEX
#6E5160- RGB
rgb(110, 81, 96)- HSL
hsl(329, 15%, 37%)- OKLCH
oklch(0.471 0.045 346.5)- OKLab
oklab(0.471 0.043 -0.010)- CIELAB (D65)
L* 37.92, a* 14.76, b* -3.97- XYZ (D65)
X 11.48, Y 10.04, Z 12.40- CMYK (naive)
cmyk(0%, 26%, 13%, 57%)
CIELAB and XYZ use the D65 white point; CSS lab() uses D50, so paste the OKLCH or HEX value into stylesheets. CMYK here is a plain formula with no press profile.
Crayola is a trademark of Crayola LLC, which this site is not affiliated with. The value is the commonly published sRGB rendering of the crayon, not a Crayola specification.
Legibility
Contrast: is #6E5160 accessible?
White text on it reaches 6.97:1, passing AA. Black text manages only 3.00:1, enough for large text only.
WCAG 2 gives the same ratio whichever color is the text; APCA does not, so its Lc changes sign and size with polarity.
Open the Contrast System-
Black text on it
3.00:1
- AA fails
- AA large passes
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc +19
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White text on it
6.97:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc −89
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As text on black
3.00:1
- AA fails
- AA large passes
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc −17
-
As text on white
6.97:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc +84
Nearest versions that pass 4.5:1
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For text on white
#6E5160 6.97:1
It already reaches 6.97:1 on white, so no change is needed.
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For text on black
#8A6C7B 4.51:1
Lightening its OKLCH lightness from 0.47 to 0.57 reaches 4.51:1 on black, keeping the hue.
Checking another pair? Use the Contrast Checker.
Studio
Adjust #6E5160 live
Move lightness, chroma and hue in OKLCH, or drag on the map. The map is every lightness and chroma at the current hue: sRGB inside the solid area, Display P3 out to the dashed line.
Scale
Shades and tints of #6E5160
Eleven OKLCH lightness steps at this hue, each with its contrast against white and black. #6E5160 sits at step 700.
Under each step, white and black text on it; a bold figure passes 4.5:1.
Gamut
How vivid #6E5160 can get
At its lightness and hue, sRGB reaches OKLCH chroma 0.199; #6E5160 uses 22% of it. Display P3, which many recent phones and laptops show, reaches 0.222 there: 12% more.
- sRGB
- Display P3
- Rec. 2020
- Dominant wavelength
- OKLCH chroma
- 0.045
- sRGB edge
- 0.199
- Display P3 edge
- 0.222
- Rec. 2020 edge
- 0.261
- Dominant wavelength
- Complementary 508 nm
- Excitation purity
- 17%
- Chromaticity
- x 0.3385, y 0.2961
- This color#6E5160
- Most vivid in sRGB#A10071
- Most vivid in Display P3oklch(0.471 0.222 346.5)
On a screen without Display P3 the last tile shows the sRGB edge instead.
.accent {
color: #6e5160;
}
@media (color-gamut: p3) {
.accent { color: color(display-p3 0.5991 0 0.4397); }
}Mixing
Mixing #6E5160
Each row is the same mix worked out in a different space, with the halfway color at its end. sRGB, which older CSS gradients use, can sag gray or dark in the middle; OKLab keeps the lightness steps even; OKLCH holds chroma and hue as it goes.
White #FFFFFF
- sRGB50%#B7A8B0
- OKLab50%#B5A4AC
- OKLCH50%#B5A4AC
Black #000000
- sRGB50%#372930
- OKLab50%#261A20
- OKLCH50%#261A20
Its complement #426355
- sRGB50%#585A5B
- OKLab50%#5B5B5B
- OKLCH50%#69583E
/* A gradient and a mix, worked out in OKLCH */
background: linear-gradient(in oklch, #6e5160, white);
color: color-mix(in oklch, #6e5160 50%, white);In use
#6E5160 in an interface
A button, a link, a heading, a focused field, an icon and a chart line in this color, on a light page and a dark one. Each check is a WCAG 2 contrast minimum: 1.4.3 for text, 1.4.11 for the rest.
Light page
- Button labelText, 4.5:16.97:1 Passes
- Link and body-size textText, 4.5:16.97:1 Passes
- Large headingLarge text, 3:16.97:1 Passes
- Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:16.97:1 Passes
Dark page
- Button labelText, 4.5:16.97:1 Passes
- Link and body-size textText, 4.5:12.68:1 Fails
- Large headingLarge text, 3:12.68:1 Fails
- Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:12.68:1 Fails
For text on this page, the nearest shade that passes is #937584 4.56:1
Color vision
How #6E5160 looks with color blindness
Achromatopsia changes it most, ΔE2000 14.9; tritanopia changes it least, 4.6.
Simulated with Machado et al. (2009) at full severity, in linear light.
Simulate a whole page What each type sees-
Protanopia
No working red (long-wavelength) cones
#535661 ΔE2000 14.2
Distinct
Reads as dark gray
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Deuteranopia
No working green (medium-wavelength) cones
#5A5B5F ΔE2000 14.4
Distinct
Reads as dark gray
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Tritanopia
No working blue (short-wavelength) cones
#725156 ΔE2000 4.6
Close match
Reads as dark grayish wine
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Achromatopsia
No cone color vision; lightness only
#595959 ΔE2000 14.9
Distinct
Reads as dark gray
Pairing check
Checked against its complement, #426355. Their lightness contrast is only 1.04:1, so where hue collapses, add a label, icon or pattern.
| Vision | The pair | ΔE2000 | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal vision | #6E5160 · #426355 | 36.4 | Stays distinct |
| Protanopia | #535661 · #625F54 | 12.9 | Stays distinct |
| Deuteranopia | #5A5B5F · #5C5B56 | 5.5 | Harder to tell apart |
| Tritanopia | #725156 · #3A635F | 35.1 | Stays distinct |
| Achromatopsia | #595959 · #5C5C5C | 1.1 | Easily confused |
Harmony
Color harmonies for #6E5160
Its complement is #426355, a dark grayish green, on the cool side of the wheel.
Hue rotations in OKLCH, mapped into sRGB by trimming chroma so hue and lightness stay put.
Open the Harmony Studio- Base#6E5160
- Complement#426355
Complementary
Open in Harmony Studio- −30°#65536C
- Base#6E5160
- +30°#725152
Analogous
Open in Harmony Studio- Base#6E5160
- +120°#5E5D3F
- +240°#3F606E
Triadic
Open in Harmony Studio- Base#6E5160
- +150°#506148
- +210°#3C6363
Split-complementary
Open in Harmony StudioCode
Design tokens
Ready-to-paste tokens in six formats. Rename them to fit your system.
:root {
--color-crayola-eggplant: #6e5160;
}// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'crayola-eggplant': '#6e5160',
},
},
},
};/* app.css — Tailwind CSS v4 */
@import "tailwindcss";
@theme {
--color-crayola-eggplant: oklch(0.471 0.045 346.5);
}{
"color": {
"crayola-eggplant": {
"$type": "color",
"$value": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [0.4314, 0.3176, 0.3765],
"hex": "#6e5160"
},
"$description": "Crayola Eggplant"
}
}
}import SwiftUI
enum Palette {
static let crayolaEggplant = Color(.sRGB, red: 0.431, green: 0.318, blue: 0.376, opacity: 1)
}import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
object Palette {
val CrayolaEggplant = Color(0xFF6E5160)
}Matches
The nearest match in each system
The closest CSS name, Tailwind shade, RAL Classic paint and Crayola crayon by ΔE2000; under 2 is hard to tell apart side by side. RAL and Crayola values approximate physical colors.
Tools
Open #6E5160 in the tools
Each opens over this page. More colors live in the Color Library, and every color page is listed on the hub.
- Color InspectorEvery format, its names, contrast and color vision in one panel.
- Contrast SystemBlack and white text on this color, with fixes in both directions.
- Harmony StudioPalettes built from this color, walked to a contrast target if you ask.
- Color Space ConverterThe same color in 34 notations, with its gamut headroom.
- Color Name FinderThe nearest of 1,055 color names by ΔE2000.