Medium purple

#866dcc

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

This is Medium purple, a soft purple at 256 degrees. 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 #866dcc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#866dcc

RGB134, 109, 204

HSL256, 48%, 61%

HSV256, 47%, 80%

CMYK34%, 47%, 0%, 20%

Lab52.25, 31.23, -46.01

XYZ26.2, 20.37, 59.68

Decimal8809932

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2715 C

Shades of medium purple

#7558c5 #6343bd #583ba9 #4d3494 #422c7f #37256a #2c1e55 #221741 #170f2c #0c0817

Tints of medium purple

#917ad1 #9c88d5 #a795da #b2a2df #bdafe3 #c8bde8 #d3caec #ded7f1 #e9e4f6 #f4f2fa

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#b3cc6d Analogous#6d84cc Analogous#b66dcc Triadic#cc866d Triadic#6dcc86 Split complementary#ccb56d Split complementary#84cc6d

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, 47, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #866dcc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

34 47 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

35 47 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 #866dcc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #866dcc; }
.text { color: #866dcc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #866dcc; }

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 #866dcc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #866dcc 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 #866dcc 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 #866dcc 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 #866dcc are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.