Medium purple

#847bbd

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. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #847bbd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#847bbd

RGB132, 123, 189

HSL248, 33%, 61%

HSV248, 35%, 74%

CMYK30%, 35%, 0%, 26%

Lab54.81, 18.46, -33.42

XYZ25.78, 22.75, 51.18

Decimal8682429

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone272 C

Shades of medium purple

#7368b4 #6155aa #564c98 #4c4285 #413972 #36305f #2c264d #211d3a #161427 #0c0a14

Tints of medium purple

#8f87c3 #9a93c9 #a69fcf #b1abd5 #bcb7db #c7c3e1 #d2cfe7 #dedbed #e9e7f3 #f4f3f9

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#b4bd7b Analogous#7b93bd Analogous#a57bbd Triadic#bd847b Triadic#7bbd84 Split complementary#bda57b Split complementary#93bd7b

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 30, 35, 0, 26.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #847bbd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

30 35 0 26

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

32 36 4 32

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 #847bbd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #847bbd; }
.text { color: #847bbd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #847bbd; }

How medium purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Medium purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #847bbd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #847bbd 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 #847bbd 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 #847bbd 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

Here is how the numbers for #847bbd are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.