Purple

#865b92

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

Purple falls in the purple range, mid and muted. 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.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #865b92, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#865b92

RGB134, 91, 146

HSL287, 23%, 46%

HSV287, 38%, 57%

CMYK8%, 38%, 0%, 43%

Lab45.12, 27.69, -23.35

XYZ18.76, 14.63, 29.03

Decimal8805266

Web safe#996699

Pantone258 C

Shades of purple

#7a5385 #6f4b79 #63436c #573b5f #4c3352 #402b46 #342439 #291c2c #1d1420 #110c13

Tints of purple

#9367a0 #9f76aa #aa86b4 #b596bd #c0a5c7 #cbb5d1 #d6c5db #e1d5e5 #ece4ee #f7f4f8

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#67925b Analogous#6b5b92 Analogous#925b82 Triadic#92865b Triadic#5b9286 Split complementary#83925b Split complementary#5b926b

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 8, 38, 0, 43.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #865b92 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

8 38 0 43

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

11 39 4 49

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.

Purple in css

Copy #865b92 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #865b92; }
.text { color: #865b92; }
.border { border: 2px solid #865b92; }

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 #865b92 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #865b92 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #865b92 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #865b92 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

Every value on this page for #865b92 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 figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.