65 colors

Behr Purple

Purples are unusually sensitive to artificial light, which can pull them toward grey or toward pink.

Behr's purple shade card, searchable - every purple they publish, each with its paint code, hex value, LRV and closest equivalent in the other brands.

  • 8–68LRV range
  • 0warm
  • 65cool

Every Behr purple Lightest to darkest - tap a color to open it

Common questions

How many purple paint colors does Behr have?

Behr publishes 65 purple paint colors in the palettes it makes available, and all of them are listed on this page with their color code, hex value, RGB, Light Reflectance Value and undertone.

What is the paint code for a purple color on this page?

Every swatch shows its manufacturer code beneath the name - Behr MONOLOGUE is M570-2, for example. That code is what a store mixes from, and it is unique to its brand: the same code at another manufacturer is an unrelated color.

Which Behr purple paint colors suit a dark room?

The ones with a high Light Reflectance Value, which is the percentage of light a color reflects. These purple colors run from LRV 7.5 (Behr DEEP MERLOT) to LRV 67.9 (Behr MONOLOGUE); above 60 keeps a room bright, below 30 reads as a deep color and absorbs the light a dark room has left.

Are these purple paint colors warm or cool?

Both - 0 of the 65 are warm and 65 are cool, with the rest neutral. The label is computed from each color's hue angle and chroma in CIE L*a*b*, not from its name, so it can be compared across brands. Warm purple suits north-facing rooms, cool purple suits rooms that already get strong afternoon light.

What is the equivalent of a Behr purple color in another brand?

Open any swatch on this page. It lists the closest color in each of the other brands with a ΔE00 figure - perceived color difference, where under 1.0 is indistinguishable side by side and above 4 is visible across a room. The comparison covers published color values only, not sheen, base or coverage.

Is this the Behr purple shade card?

It is the same information, online and searchable. Where a printed shade card or colour chart gives you a chip and a name, every purple swatch here carries its code, hex, RGB, LRV and undertone, and its nearest equivalents at the other brands - with nothing to download and no fan deck to order.