What color does black and purple make?
Black and Purple make Deep Eggplant (#2C1830). Adding black is a shade, not a hue shift: it deepens purple into a dark eggplant without pulling it toward another color.
Black and Purple sit a moderate distance apart on the color wheel, which is the gap that tends to produce a genuine in-between hue rather than a washed-out version of either original color.
How the ratio changes the result
That's the traditional paint-mixing answer. The calculator below blends these exact colors live in OKLCH space, which lands a little differently, edit either hex to compare the two.
Black and Purple mix FAQ
What color does black and purple make?
Black and Purple make Deep Eggplant (#2C1830). Adding black is a shade, not a hue shift: it deepens purple into a dark eggplant without pulling it toward another color.
Does the ratio of black to purple change the result?
Yes. Equal parts land on Deep Eggplant (#2C1830), but using more black pulls the result toward #3e1f30, and more purple pulls it toward #793191. Try any ratio in the calculator above.
What's the exact hex code for black and purple mixed?
Black (#171717) and Purple (#8B3FD1) mixed in equal parts is #2C1830. Copy it directly from the calculator, or open it in the generator to build a full palette around it.