The Deanna Jacket
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#6E4A63
Muted plum
A True Summer color
anchor color 9 of 10 in True Summer. Also called Cool Summer in other systems.
By Kathleen Olsen · Updated November 11, 2026
Muted plum is the True Summer dark: a soft, cool plum with grey in it. It is the deepest chromatic color in the palette and it does much of the work other seasons give to burgundy. Nine points from Soft Summer's soft plum, so the two seasons share it.
Muted plum is an anchor color in True Summer. Its closest relative outside the palette is Soft plum #7A5F72, a Soft Summer color, at a perceptual distance of 9. That is near enough for that season to wear it as a neutral, with the accents kept in its own palette.
At RGB 110, 74, 99 the red leads, the blue is close behind and the green is low. The blue sitting near the red is what makes it a plum rather than a wine. The low overall saturation is the grey. It is the color of a plum's bloom, never the color of the fruit cut open. Push the saturation and depth and it becomes Deep Winter's royal purple; add red and it heads toward the warm burgundies of the Autumns.
A True Summer wears it as her depth: a coat, a knit, trousers, a bag, a winter dress. It gives weight to a palette of mid-tones without the hardness of black. It works with soft white, cool grey and rose-beige, and it pairs well with cool rose and dusty blue.
Retail calls it plum, mulberry, fig, aubergine and dusty purple. Fall is when most of it is in stores, which makes it one of the few True Summer colors that is easy to buy in October. The versions to avoid are the bright purple, which is a Winter's, and the brown-leaning fig, which is an Autumn's.
The nearest color is Soft Summer's soft plum at nine points, a little lighter and greyer; the two pass for each other. Deep Winter's royal purple is seventeen points away, darker and more saturated. Soft Summer's soft cool raspberry is eighteen points off and redder. The soft navies and soft charcoal of the Summers are about twenty points away. The warm burgundies of the Autumns are further still and lean brown, which is the thing to check for on a fall rack.
The nearest named colors in other seasons, by perceptual distance (ΔE in CIELAB; under 10 is hard to tell apart on a screen, over 25 is a different color).
Soft plum #7A5F72
Soft Summer anchor · ΔE 9
Royal purple #55264F
Deep Winter anchor · ΔE 17
Soft cool raspberry #9E5C6B
Soft Summer anchor · ΔE 18
Soft navy #43526A
Light Summer neutral · ΔE 20
Soft navy #3C4657
Soft Summer neutral · ΔE 20
Soft charcoal #4A4E54
Soft Summer neutral · ΔE 21
As of November 11, 2026, 1 in-stock piece across Christy Dawn sample within a close match of #6E4A63. The dot on each card is the color we sampled from the garment itself; trust it over the photograph. Links are affiliate links: we earn a commission when you buy through them, at no cost to you.
Retailers almost never use the palette name. These are the color names on the in-stock pieces that sample within a close match of #6E4A63 today, so they are the words to search for.
A retailer's name for a color says nothing about its undertone. "Navy" at one shop is a True Winter color and at another a Spring one. The sampled dot on each card above is what we trust.
Yes. Muted plum (#6E4A63) is an anchor color in the True Summer palette, and close enough to a Soft Summer color for that season to wear it as a neutral.
No. Burgundy is redder and usually warmer. Muted plum has more blue and more grey. On a True Summer, a warm burgundy can look heavy and brownish; plum is the cool alternative.
Yes. Soft Summer's soft plum is nine points away, close enough to pass. On a Soft Summer this one reads a touch deep and clear, and it works well as a dark.
For a True Summer: soft white, cool grey, rose-beige, grey-taupe, cool rose, dusty blue and periwinkle. Plum with rose-beige is the pairing to try first. Avoid black, which swallows it, and orange-browns, which clash.
For many pieces, yes. It is dark enough for coats, trousers and bags, and it is far kinder near the face. True Summer's navy does the same job; plum is the option with more color.
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