Purple

#4e0748

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for purple, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

This is Purple, a vivid pink at 305 degrees. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. It works with sage and olive for balance, or with cream for a gentle palette.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #4e0748, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#4e0748

RGB78, 7, 72

HSL305, 84%, 17%

HSV305, 91%, 31%

CMYK0%, 91%, 8%, 69%

Lab16.7, 38.43, -21.11

XYZ4.39, 2.24, 6.33

Decimal5113672

Web safe#660033

Pantone2623 C

Shades of purple

#44063f #3a0536 #30042c #260323 #21031f #1c031a

Tints of purple

#730a6a #990e8d #be11af #e314d2 #ed34dd #f059e3 #f37fea #f7a4f0 #fac9f6 #feeffc

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#074e0d Analogous#30074e Analogous#4e0725 Triadic#484e07 Triadic#07484e Split complementary#254e07 Split complementary#074e31

Purple in print

At this depth the ink coverage is heavy, worth a proof before a long run. The cmyk build is 0, 91, 8, 69.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #4e0748 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 91 8 69

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 88 11 75

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Purple in css

Copy #4e0748 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #4e0748; }
.text { color: #4e0748; }
.border { border: 2px solid #4e0748; }

How purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #4e0748 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #4e0748 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #4e0748 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around purple? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #4e0748 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #4e0748 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.