Purple

#561a5e

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

Purple sits in the pink band, deep and strong. 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 #561a5e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#561a5e

RGB86, 26, 94

HSL293, 57%, 24%

HSV293, 72%, 37%

CMYK9%, 72%, 0%, 63%

Lab22.04, 37.62, -27.4

XYZ6.23, 3.53, 10.94

Decimal5642846

Web safe#663366

Pantone2623 C

Shades of purple

#501857 #491650 #431449 #3c1242 #36103b #300e34 #290c2d #230b26 #1c091f #160718

Tints of purple

#71227b #8b2a98 #a632b5 #bb42cb #c55fd3 #d07cdb #da9ae3 #e5b7eb #efd4f3 #faf1fb

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#225e1a Analogous#341a5e Analogous#5e1a44 Triadic#5e561a Triadic#1a5e56 Split complementary#445e1a Split complementary#1a5e34

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 9, 72, 0, 63.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #561a5e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

9 72 0 63

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

12 70 4 69

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 #561a5e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #561a5e; }
.text { color: #561a5e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #561a5e; }

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 #561a5e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #561a5e 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 #561a5e 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 #561a5e 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 #561a5e are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.