Medium purple

#8575cd

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

Medium purple is a mid blue that reads confident. 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 #8575cd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8575cd

RGB133, 117, 205

HSL251, 47%, 63%

HSV251, 43%, 80%

CMYK35%, 43%, 0%, 20%

Lab54.15, 26.53, -43.56

XYZ27.05, 22.12, 60.6

Decimal8746445

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2715 C

Shades of medium purple

#7260c5 #5f4abe #523eac #483797 #3e2f81 #34276c #291f57 #1f1841 #15102c #0b0816

Tints of medium purple

#9081d2 #9b8ed6 #a69adb #b1a7df #bcb3e4 #c7c0e8 #d2cced #ddd9f1 #e8e5f6 #f3f2fa

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#bdcd75 Analogous#7591cd Analogous#b175cd Triadic#cd8575 Triadic#75cd85 Split complementary#cdb175 Split complementary#91cd75

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 35, 43, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8575cd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

35 43 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

36 44 4 26

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 #8575cd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8575cd; }
.text { color: #8575cd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8575cd; }

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 #8575cd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8575cd 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 #8575cd 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 #8575cd 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 #8575cd 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. 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 figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.