Purple

#5a2c6e

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

This is Purple, a soft purple at 282 degrees. Deep purples like this carry luxury and craft. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #5a2c6e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5a2c6e

RGB90, 44, 110

HSL282, 43%, 30%

HSV282, 60%, 43%

CMYK18%, 60%, 0%, 57%

Lab27.02, 33.07, -29.85

XYZ7.93, 5.1, 15.32

Decimal5909614

Web safe#663366

Pantone268 C

Shades of purple

#532865 #4c255c #442154 #3d1e4b #361a42 #2f1739 #281330 #201027 #190c1f #120916

Tints of purple

#6e3686 #823f9e #9549b6 #a361c0 #b179ca #bf92d3 #cdaadd #dbc2e7 #eadaf0 #f8f2fa

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#406e2c Analogous#392c6e Analogous#6e2c61 Triadic#6e5a2c Triadic#2c6e5a Split complementary#616e2c Split complementary#2c6e39

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 18, 60, 0, 57.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5a2c6e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

18 60 0 57

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

21 59 4 63

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 #5a2c6e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5a2c6e; }
.text { color: #5a2c6e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5a2c6e; }

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 #5a2c6e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5a2c6e 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 #5a2c6e 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 #5a2c6e 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 #5a2c6e come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.