Mauve color
Mauve is a soft, grayed pink-purple. Named after the mallow flower; the first synthetic dye, mauveine (1856), made it famous. Its hex code is #B784A7.
- Hex
- #B784A7
- RGB
- 183, 132, 167
- OKLCH
- 67.4% 0.078 338.5
- Value
- 6 of 10
- Family
- Red-violet
Is mauve warm or cool?
Both, a little: red-violet sits right at the line between the warm half of the color wheel and the cool half, so it can read as either, depending on what is beside it. On its own, mauve leans warm. It is a mid-tone color, value 6 of 10, and its opposite is fern. More in warm and cool colors.
Mauve tints, tones and shades
A tint adds white, a tone adds gray of the same lightness, and a shade adds black. Each row starts with mauve itself.
The opposite of mauve
Opposite mauve on the color wheel sits fern, #818967. Side by side, each makes the other look stronger; mixed, they turn each other gray.
Colors that go with mauve
Mauve in paintings
The nearest colors to mauve in our painting palettes.
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