Purple

#552d64

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

Purple falls in the purple range, deep and soft. 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 #552d64, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#552d64

RGB85, 45, 100

HSL284, 38%, 28%

HSV284, 55%, 39%

CMYK15%, 55%, 0%, 61%

Lab25.95, 28.63, -25.14

XYZ6.98, 4.73, 12.6

Decimal5582180

Web safe#663366

Pantone669 C

Shades of purple

#4e295c #482654 #41224c #3a1f44 #331b3d #2d1835 #26142d #1f1125 #190d1d #120915

Tints of purple

#69387c #7e4394 #924dac #a163b9 #b07bc4 #be93ce #cdabd9 #dbc3e4 #e9dbef #f8f3f9

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#3c642d Analogous#3a2d64 Analogous#642d57 Triadic#64552d Triadic#2d6455 Split complementary#57642d Split complementary#2d643a

Purple in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 15, 55, 0, 61.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #552d64 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

15 55 0 61

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

18 55 4 67

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 #552d64 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #552d64; }
.text { color: #552d64; }
.border { border: 2px solid #552d64; }

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 #552d64 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #552d64 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 #552d64 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 #552d64 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

The figures for #552d64 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.