Purple

#846a97

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

Purple is a mid purple with a balanced cast. A mid purple this rich reads creative and a little premium. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #846a97, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#846a97

RGB132, 106, 151

HSL275, 18%, 50%

HSV275, 30%, 59%

CMYK13%, 30%, 0%, 41%

Lab48.82, 19.26, -20.63

XYZ20.26, 17.45, 31.58

Decimal8678039

Web safe#996699

Pantone667 C

Shades of purple

#78608a #6d577d #614e6f #564462 #4a3b55 #3e3247 #33283a #271f2d #1b161f #100d12

Tints of purple

#8f78a1 #9b86aa #a694b4 #b2a1be #bdafc7 #c9bdd1 #d4cbdb #dfd9e4 #ebe7ee #f6f4f8

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#7d976a Analogous#6e6a97 Analogous#976a93 Triadic#97846a Triadic#6a9784 Split complementary#93976a Split complementary#6a976d

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 13, 30, 0, 41.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #846a97 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

13 30 0 41

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

16 32 4 47

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 #846a97 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #846a97; }
.text { color: #846a97; }
.border { border: 2px solid #846a97; }

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 #846a97 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #846a97 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 #846a97 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 #846a97 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 #846a97 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.