#7A5F72
Soft plum
A Soft Summer color
anchor color 7 of 10 in Soft Summer. Also called Muted Summer in other systems.
By Kathleen Olsen · Updated November 11, 2026
Soft plum is the Soft Summer dark with color in it: a greyed, mid-deep plum. It is nine points from True Summer's muted plum, so the two seasons share it, and it gives a muted palette some depth without reaching for black or burgundy.
Soft plum is an anchor color in Soft Summer. Its closest relative outside the palette is Muted plum #6E4A63, a True 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 122, 95, 114 the red leads, the blue is close behind and the green is lower, with all three fairly near each other. The nearness is the grey. The blue close to the red makes it plum rather than wine. It is the color of a dried fig's skin. Clear the grey and deepen it and it becomes True Summer's muted plum; push further and it becomes the royal purple of Deep Winter.
A Soft Summer wears it as depth: a coat, a knit, trousers, a bag, a winter dress. It is softer than charcoal and more interesting than navy. It works with soft white, dove taupe and soft charcoal, and it pairs well with dusty rose, soft mauve and eucalyptus.
Retail calls it plum, dusty plum, fig, mulberry and truffle. Christy Dawn's Iris and Wisteria and STAUD's Truffle and Zinc have landed near it. It is most available in fall. The versions to avoid are the bright purple, which is a Winter's, and the brown fig, which is an Autumn's.
The nearest color is True Summer's muted plum at nine points, a little deeper and clearer; the two pass for each other. Nothing else is within sixteen points. True Winter's cool slate grey is seventeen points off and has no purple. Soft Summer's own soft cool raspberry, soft mauve and soft charcoal are all about eighteen points away. The warm burgundies of the Autumns are much further and lean brown.
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).
Muted plum #6E4A63
True Summer anchor · ΔE 9
Cool slate grey #6C757D
True Winter neutral · ΔE 17
Soft navy #43526A
Light Summer neutral · ΔE 19
Dusty blue #6E8AA6
True Summer anchor · ΔE 24
Soft chocolate #5A4636
Soft Autumn neutral · ΔE 24
Cool rose #C67B92
True Summer anchor · ΔE 25
As of November 11, 2026, nothing in stock samples close to #7A5F72. The guide below has the nearest colors that do. 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.
Yes. Soft plum (#7A5F72) is an anchor color in the Soft Summer palette, and close enough to a True Summer color for that season to wear it as a neutral.
Yes. True Summer's muted plum is nine points away. On a True Summer soft plum reads a touch grey, and it works as a quieter alternative to her own.
No. Burgundy is redder, deeper and usually warmer. Soft plum is greyer and cooler. On a Soft Summer, burgundy tends to look heavy; plum gives the same depth at a lower volume.
For a Soft Summer: soft white, dove taupe, soft charcoal, soft navy, dusty rose, soft mauve and eucalyptus. Plum with dove taupe is the pairing to try first. Avoid black, which swallows it, and warm browns, which clash.
For many pieces, yes. It is deep enough for coats, trousers and bags and much kinder near the face. Soft charcoal and soft navy do the same job; plum is the one with color.
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