Purple

#5c3569

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

Purple is a deep purple with a weighty cast. 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 #5c3569, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5c3569

RGB92, 53, 105

HSL285, 33%, 31%

HSV285, 50%, 41%

CMYK12%, 50%, 0%, 59%

Lab29.01, 27.26, -23.48

XYZ8.24, 5.84, 14.06

Decimal6042985

Web safe#663366

Pantone519 C

Shades of purple

#553161 #4d2c58 #462850 #3e2447 #37203f #2f1b36 #28172e #211325 #190f1d #120a14

Tints of purple

#6f407f #834b95 #9658ab #a46eb6 #b284c1 #c09acc #ceb1d7 #dcc7e3 #eaddee #f8f3f9

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#426935 Analogous#423569 Analogous#69355c Triadic#695c35 Triadic#35695c Split complementary#5c6935 Split complementary#356942

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 12, 50, 0, 59.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5c3569 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

12 50 0 59

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

15 50 4 65

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 #5c3569 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5c3569; }
.text { color: #5c3569; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5c3569; }

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 #5c3569 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5c3569 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 #5c3569 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 #5c3569 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

Every value on this page for #5c3569 is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.