Purple

#6b1c81

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

Purple falls in the purple range, deep and strong. 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 #6b1c81, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6b1c81

RGB107, 28, 129

HSL287, 64%, 31%

HSV287, 78%, 51%

CMYK17%, 78%, 0%, 49%

Lab28.22, 48.84, -39.83

XYZ10.44, 5.54, 21.29

Decimal7019649

Web safe#663399

Pantone526 C

Shades of purple

#621a77 #5a176c #511562 #491357 #40114d #370e43 #2f0c38 #260a2e #1d0824 #150519

Tints of purple

#82229d #9928b8 #af30d2 #b94bd8 #c467de #cf82e4 #d99eea #e4b9f0 #efd5f6 #f9f0fc

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#32811c Analogous#391c81 Analogous#811c64 Triadic#816b1c Triadic#1c816b Split complementary#65811c Split complementary#1c8138

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 17, 78, 0, 49.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6b1c81 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

17 78 0 49

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

20 76 4 55

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 #6b1c81 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6b1c81; }
.text { color: #6b1c81; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6b1c81; }

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 #6b1c81 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6b1c81 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 #6b1c81 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 #6b1c81 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 #6b1c81 is computed, not guessed. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.