Purple

#512860

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

Purple is a deep purple with a serious cast. Deep purples like this carry luxury and craft. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #512860, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#512860

RGB81, 40, 96

HSL284, 41%, 27%

HSV284, 58%, 38%

CMYK16%, 58%, 0%, 62%

Lab24.04, 29.39, -25.59

XYZ6.26, 4.11, 11.53

Decimal5318752

Web safe#663366

Pantone269 C

Shades of purple

#4b2559 #442251 #3e1f4a #381c42 #32193b #2b1533 #25122c #1f0f24 #190c1d #120916

Tints of purple

#663279 #7b3d92 #9147ab #a15cbb #b075c5 #be8ed0 #cda7da #dbc0e5 #e9d9ef #f8f2fa

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#376028 Analogous#352860 Analogous#602853 Triadic#605128 Triadic#286051 Split complementary#536028 Split complementary#286035

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 16, 58, 0, 62.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #512860 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

16 58 0 62

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

19 57 4 68

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 #512860 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #512860; }
.text { color: #512860; }
.border { border: 2px solid #512860; }

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 #512860 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #512860 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 #512860 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 #512860 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 #512860 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.