Purple

#7e136c

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

Purple sits in the pink band, deep and strong. 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 #7e136c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#7e136c

RGB126, 19, 108

HSL310, 74%, 28%

HSV310, 85%, 49%

CMYK0%, 85%, 14%, 51%

Lab29.37, 52.04, -24.45

XYZ11.54, 5.98, 14.73

Decimal8262508

Web safe#660066

Pantone259 C

Shades of purple

#741263 #6a105b #600f52 #560d4a #4c0c41 #420a39 #380930 #2e0728 #25061f #1b0417

Tints of purple

#9c1886 #ba1ca0 #d821ba #e13ac5 #e659ce #ea77d7 #ef95e0 #f4b3e9 #f8d1f2 #fdeffa

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#137e25 Analogous#5b137e Analogous#7e1336 Triadic#6c7e13 Triadic#136c7e Split complementary#367e13 Split complementary#137e5b

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 0, 85, 14, 51.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #7e136c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 85 14 51

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 82 17 57

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #7e136c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #7e136c; }
.text { color: #7e136c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #7e136c; }

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 #7e136c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #7e136c 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 #7e136c 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 #7e136c 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 #7e136c are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.