Medium purple

#7f85c6

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

Medium purple sits in the blue band, mid and soft. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #7f85c6, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#7f85c6

RGB127, 133, 198

HSL235, 38%, 64%

HSV235, 36%, 78%

CMYK36%, 33%, 0%, 22%

Lab57.43, 13.53, -34.48

XYZ27.33, 25.36, 56.88

Decimal8357318

Web safe#6699cc

Pantone659 C

Shades of medium purple

#6b72bd #565eb4 #4951a4 #40478f #373d7b #2e3367 #252852 #1c1e3e #12142a #090a15

Tints of medium purple

#8b90cb #969bd0 #a2a6d5 #adb1db #b9bce0 #c4c7e5 #d0d2ea #dcddef #e7e8f4 #f3f3fa

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#c6c07f Analogous#7fa8c6 Analogous#9c7fc6 Triadic#c67f85 Triadic#85c67f Split complementary#c69c7f Split complementary#a9c67f

Medium 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 36, 33, 0, 22.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #7f85c6 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

36 33 0 22

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

37 34 4 28

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.

Medium purple in css

Copy #7f85c6 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #7f85c6; }
.text { color: #7f85c6; }
.border { border: 2px solid #7f85c6; }

How medium purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

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Medium purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #7f85c6 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #7f85c6 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #7f85c6 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around medium 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 medium purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #7f85c6 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 medium purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #7f85c6 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.