Purple

#5f0856

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

Purple sits in the pink band, dark and vivid. 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 #5f0856, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5f0856

RGB95, 8, 86

HSL306, 84%, 20%

HSV306, 92%, 37%

CMYK0%, 92%, 9%, 63%

Lab21.13, 44.29, -23.42

XYZ6.49, 3.28, 9.1

Decimal6228054

Web safe#660066

Pantone2623 C

Shades of purple

#580750 #4b0644 #44063e #370532 #30042c #2a0426 #230320 #1c021a

Tints of purple

#830b76 #a70e97 #cb11b7 #eb17d6 #ef3bdc #f25fe2 #f583e9 #f8a7ef #fbcbf6 #feeffc

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#085f11 Analogous#3d085f Analogous#5f082a Triadic#565f08 Triadic#08565f Split complementary#2a5f08 Split complementary#085f3d

Purple in print

It runs deep in print, so a rich black build underneath keeps it from looking flat. The cmyk build is 0, 92, 9, 63.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5f0856 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 92 9 63

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 89 12 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 #5f0856 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5f0856; }
.text { color: #5f0856; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5f0856; }

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 #5f0856 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5f0856 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 #5f0856 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 #5f0856 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 #5f0856 are worked out. 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.