Medium purple

#856bbf

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

Medium purple is a mid purple with a confident cast. A mid purple this rich reads creative and a little premium. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #856bbf, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#856bbf

RGB133, 107, 191

HSL259, 40%, 58%

HSV259, 44%, 75%

CMYK30%, 44%, 0%, 25%

Lab50.99, 28.72, -40.55

XYZ24.33, 19.26, 51.73

Decimal8743871

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone814 C

Shades of medium purple

#7658b7 #684aab #5c4298 #513a85 #463273 #3a2a60 #2f214d #24193b #181128 #0d0915

Tints of medium purple

#9079c5 #9b86cb #a794d1 #b2a1d6 #bdafdc #c8bce2 #d3cae8 #ded7ee #eae5f4 #f5f3fa

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#a5bf6b Analogous#6b7bbf Analogous#af6bbf Triadic#bf856b Triadic#6bbf85 Split complementary#bfaf6b Split complementary#7bbf6b

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 30, 44, 0, 25.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #856bbf on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

30 44 0 25

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

32 44 4 31

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 #856bbf straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #856bbf; }
.text { color: #856bbf; }
.border { border: 2px solid #856bbf; }

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 #856bbf against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #856bbf 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 #856bbf 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 #856bbf 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 #856bbf are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.