Purple

#520e4e

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

Purple sits in the pink band, dark and strong. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #520e4e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#520e4e

RGB82, 14, 78

HSL304, 71%, 19%

HSV304, 83%, 32%

CMYK0%, 83%, 5%, 68%

Lab18.62, 38.28, -22.14

XYZ5.01, 2.66, 7.46

Decimal5377614

Web safe#660066

Pantone2623 C

Shades of purple

#4c0d49 #470c43 #410b3e #3c0a39 #360933 #30082e #2b0729 #250623 #20051e #1a0419

Tints of purple

#74146e #961a8e #b81faf #d925cf #e047d7 #e568de #eb8ae5 #f1aced #f7cef4 #fcf0fc

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#0e5212 Analogous#340e52 Analogous#520e2c Triadic#4e520e Triadic#0e4e52 Split complementary#2c520e Split complementary#0e5234

Purple in print

It sits near the bottom of the tone range, where dark colors gain a touch of weight on press. The cmyk build is 0, 83, 5, 68.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #520e4e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 83 5 68

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 80 9 74

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Purple in css

Copy #520e4e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #520e4e; }
.text { color: #520e4e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #520e4e; }

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 #520e4e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #520e4e against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #520e4e 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #520e4e 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 #520e4e 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.