Plum and Blush color palette
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Florists and wedding planners reach for this pairing when they need a romantic palette that still feels grown-up. Pale pink on its own can read as juvenile or sugary, and plum gives it weight. The deep purple anchors invitations, signage, and table linens while blush handles the softer surfaces: napkins, ribbon, peony petals, painted walls.
The two sit 52 degrees apart on the wheel, with plum on the cool purple side and blush leaning warm. That gentle temperature shift keeps the pair lively without clashing. measures 4.13 to 1, enough for large headings on a blush background but not body text.
In interiors, try plum on a single accent wall or velvet sofa, with blush as the dominant paint or upholstery tone.
See Plum and Blush in use
Plum Tailwind scale (50-900)
Blush Tailwind scale (50-900)
Plum to Blush blend
A continuous interpolation from Plum to Blush, sampled into the 10 steps below. Tap any swatch to copy its hex.
Why Plum and Blush blend best in OKLab
The same two colors blended three ways. This site uses OKLab, which keeps the blend smooth and evenly lit. The other two are shown so you can see what to avoid: sRGB darkens and muddies the middle, and HSL detours through colors that are not in your palette.
Accessibility
Do not place Plum text on Blush (or the reverse) for body copy. For readable text, pair a dark scale step such as plum-800 or blush-900 with a light one like blush-50.
Contrast pairing grid
Rows are Plum steps, columns are Blush steps. Each mark is a Plum step shown on a Blush step: a check means it clears WCAG AA for text (4.5:1). If you can read the mark, the pairing is legible.
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✓ passes AA ✗ fails AA
Copy for Tailwind
Tailwind v4 — @theme (paste into your CSS)
@theme {
--color-plum-50: #F9F3F7;
--color-plum-100: #F2E8F0;
--color-plum-200: #E7D5E4;
--color-plum-300: #D8BAD2;
--color-plum-400: #C297BB;
--color-plum-500: #8E4585;
--color-plum-600: #73376C;
--color-plum-700: #562750;
--color-plum-800: #30132D;
--color-plum-900: #120410;
--color-blush-50: #FFFCFB;
--color-blush-100: #FEF8F8;
--color-blush-200: #FDF3F2;
--color-blush-300: #FCEBE9;
--color-blush-400: #FAE0DE;
--color-blush-500: #F4C7C3;
--color-blush-600: #C8A29F;
--color-blush-700: #977A78;
--color-blush-800: #594745;
--color-blush-900: #271D1D;
}
Tailwind v3 — tailwind.config.js
// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'plum': {
50: '#F9F3F7',
100: '#F2E8F0',
200: '#E7D5E4',
300: '#D8BAD2',
400: '#C297BB',
500: '#8E4585',
600: '#73376C',
700: '#562750',
800: '#30132D',
900: '#120410',
},
'blush': {
50: '#FFFCFB',
100: '#FEF8F8',
200: '#FDF3F2',
300: '#FCEBE9',
400: '#FAE0DE',
500: '#F4C7C3',
600: '#C8A29F',
700: '#977A78',
800: '#594745',
900: '#271D1D',
},
},
},
},
};
CSS variables
:root {
--plum-50: #F9F3F7;
--plum-100: #F2E8F0;
--plum-200: #E7D5E4;
--plum-300: #D8BAD2;
--plum-400: #C297BB;
--plum-500: #8E4585;
--plum-600: #73376C;
--plum-700: #562750;
--plum-800: #30132D;
--plum-900: #120410;
--blush-50: #FFFCFB;
--blush-100: #FEF8F8;
--blush-200: #FDF3F2;
--blush-300: #FCEBE9;
--blush-400: #FAE0DE;
--blush-500: #F4C7C3;
--blush-600: #C8A29F;
--blush-700: #977A78;
--blush-800: #594745;
--blush-900: #271D1D;
}SCSS variables
$plum-50: #F9F3F7; $plum-100: #F2E8F0; $plum-200: #E7D5E4; $plum-300: #D8BAD2; $plum-400: #C297BB; $plum-500: #8E4585; $plum-600: #73376C; $plum-700: #562750; $plum-800: #30132D; $plum-900: #120410; $blush-50: #FFFCFB; $blush-100: #FEF8F8; $blush-200: #FDF3F2; $blush-300: #FCEBE9; $blush-400: #FAE0DE; $blush-500: #F4C7C3; $blush-600: #C8A29F; $blush-700: #977A78; $blush-800: #594745; $blush-900: #271D1D;
JSON tokens
{
"plum": {
"50": "#F9F3F7",
"100": "#F2E8F0",
"200": "#E7D5E4",
"300": "#D8BAD2",
"400": "#C297BB",
"500": "#8E4585",
"600": "#73376C",
"700": "#562750",
"800": "#30132D",
"900": "#120410"
},
"blush": {
"50": "#FFFCFB",
"100": "#FEF8F8",
"200": "#FDF3F2",
"300": "#FCEBE9",
"400": "#FAE0DE",
"500": "#F4C7C3",
"600": "#C8A29F",
"700": "#977A78",
"800": "#594745",
"900": "#271D1D"
}
}How we name colors
There is no single official authority for naming colors. We use the common, widely recognized name as the primary label for each color (here, Plum and Blush); many common names are themselves W3C CSS named colors. For transparency we also show the nearest W3C CSS named color and the perceptual distance, ΔE, measured in OKLab. A small ΔE means the name is essentially exact; a larger one means it is the closest standard name rather than a perfect match.
Sources: W3C CSS Color Module Level 4 and the open color-name-list dataset, used to verify every color sits near a recognized name.