Purple

#6b338f

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 serious cast. 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 #6b338f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6b338f

RGB107, 51, 143

HSL277, 47%, 38%

HSV277, 64%, 56%

CMYK25%, 64%, 0%, 44%

Lab32.87, 41.62, -41.06

XYZ12.21, 7.48, 26.79

Decimal7025551

Web safe#663399

Pantone527 C

Shades of purple

#622f83 #592a77 #50266b #47225f #3e1e53 #351947 #2c153b #23112f #1a0c23 #110817

Tints of purple

#7b3ba5 #8c43bb #9958c3 #a76ecb #b484d3 #c29adb #cfb0e3 #dcc6eb #eadcf2 #f7f2fa

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#578f33 Analogous#3d338f Analogous#8f3385 Triadic#8f6b33 Triadic#338f6b Split complementary#858f33 Split complementary#338f3d

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 25, 64, 0, 44.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6b338f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 64 0 44

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 63 4 50

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 #6b338f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6b338f; }
.text { color: #6b338f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6b338f; }

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 #6b338f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6b338f 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 #6b338f 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 #6b338f 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 #6b338f 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.