Dark magenta

#873b7a

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

Dark magenta is a deep pink, rich and easy to pair. Pinks like this read soft and contemporary. Deep greens and teals opposite it give contrast and warm neutrals keep it soft.

Dark magenta color values

Every conversion for #873b7a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#873b7a

RGB135, 59, 122

HSL310, 39%, 38%

HSV310, 56%, 53%

CMYK0%, 56%, 10%, 47%

Lab37.27, 41.0, -20.87

XYZ15.07, 9.68, 19.49

Decimal8862586

Web safe#993366

Pantone255 C

Shades of dark magenta

#7c3670 #703165 #652c5b #5a2751 #4e2247 #431d3c #371832 #2c1328 #210e1e #150913

Tints of dark magenta

#9c448d #b04d9f #ba61ab #c376b6 #cc8bc1 #d5a0cc #deb4d7 #e7c9e2 #f1deed #faf3f8

Colors that go with dark magenta

Complementary#3b8748 Analogous#6e3b87 Analogous#873b54 Triadic#7a873b Triadic#3b7a87 Split complementary#54873b Split complementary#3b876e

Dark magenta in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 0, 56, 10, 47.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #873b7a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

0 56 10 47

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

4 56 13 53

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.

Dark magenta in css

Copy #873b7a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #873b7a; }
.text { color: #873b7a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #873b7a; }

How dark magenta looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Dark magenta and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #873b7a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #873b7a against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Dark magenta on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #873b7a sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around dark magenta? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn dark magenta into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #873b7a 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 dark magenta, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #873b7a are worked out. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.