Purple

#59275c

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 soft. 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 #59275c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#59275c

RGB89, 39, 92

HSL297, 40%, 26%

HSV297, 58%, 36%

CMYK3%, 58%, 0%, 64%

Lab24.79, 31.52, -21.7

XYZ6.78, 4.35, 10.61

Decimal5842780

Web safe#663366

Pantone525 C

Shades of purple

#522455 #4b214e #451e47 #3e1b40 #371839 #301532 #29122b #220f24 #1c0c1d #150915

Tints of purple

#723275 #8a3d8f #a347a8 #b45ab9 #bf74c4 #cb8dcf #d7a6d9 #e2c0e4 #eed9ef #f9f2fa

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#2a5c27 Analogous#3e275c Analogous#5c2744 Triadic#5c5927 Triadic#275c59 Split complementary#445c27 Split complementary#275c3f

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 3, 58, 0, 64.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #59275c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

3 58 0 64

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

7 57 4 70

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 #59275c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #59275c; }
.text { color: #59275c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #59275c; }

How purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

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Purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #59275c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #59275c 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 #59275c 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 #59275c 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 #59275c 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. 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.