Purple

#792189

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

This is Purple, a strong pink at 291 degrees. 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 #792189, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#792189

RGB121, 33, 137

HSL291, 61%, 33%

HSV291, 76%, 54%

CMYK12%, 76%, 0%, 46%

Lab31.71, 51.59, -39.1

XYZ12.94, 6.96, 24.33

Decimal7938441

Web safe#663399

Pantone2602 C

Shades of purple

#6f1e7e #651c73 #5b1967 #51165c #471351 #3d1146 #340e3a #2a0b2f #200924 #160619

Tints of purple

#9027a3 #a72ebd #b93bd0 #c255d6 #cb6fdc #d589e3 #dea3e9 #e7bdef #f1d7f5 #faf1fc

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#318921 Analogous#452189 Analogous#892165 Triadic#897921 Triadic#218979 Split complementary#658921 Split complementary#218945

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 12, 76, 0, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #792189 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

12 76 0 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

15 74 4 52

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 #792189 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #792189; }
.text { color: #792189; }
.border { border: 2px solid #792189; }

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 #792189 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #792189 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 #792189 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 #792189 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 #792189 are worked out. 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.