Medium purple

#8565ca

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

Medium purple falls in the purple range, mid and soft. 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.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #8565ca, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8565ca

RGB133, 101, 202

HSL259, 49%, 59%

HSV259, 50%, 79%

CMYK34%, 50%, 0%, 21%

Lab50.17, 35.11, -48.18

XYZ24.99, 18.56, 58.14

Decimal8742346

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone814 C

Shades of medium purple

#7551c3 #6640b9 #5b39a5 #503290 #442b7c #392468 #2e1d54 #23163f #180f2b #0d0817

Tints of medium purple

#9073cf #9b81d4 #a68fd9 #b29ddd #bdabe2 #c8b9e7 #d3c8ec #ded6f1 #e9e4f6 #f4f2fa

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#aaca65 Analogous#6578ca Analogous#b865ca Triadic#ca8565 Triadic#65ca85 Split complementary#cab865 Split complementary#78ca65

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 34, 50, 0, 21.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8565ca on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

34 50 0 21

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

35 50 4 27

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.

Medium purple in css

Copy #8565ca straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8565ca; }
.text { color: #8565ca; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8565ca; }

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 #8565ca against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8565ca against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #8565ca 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn medium purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #8565ca 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

Every value on this page for #8565ca is computed, not guessed. 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.