Medium purple

#887abf

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. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #887abf, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#887abf

RGB136, 122, 191

HSL252, 35%, 61%

HSV252, 36%, 75%

CMYK29%, 36%, 0%, 25%

Lab54.98, 20.74, -34.26

XYZ26.52, 22.91, 52.32

Decimal8944319

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone272 C

Shades of medium purple

#7767b6 #6654ad #5a4a9a #4f4187 #443874 #392f61 #2e254e #221c3b #171328 #0c0a15

Tints of medium purple

#9386c5 #9e92cb #a89ed0 #b3aad6 #beb6dc #c9c3e2 #d4cfe8 #dfdbee #e9e7f3 #f4f3f9

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#b1bf7a Analogous#7a8fbf Analogous#aa7abf Triadic#bf887a Triadic#7abf88 Split complementary#bfab7a Split complementary#8fbf7a

Medium purple in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 29, 36, 0, 25.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #887abf on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

29 36 0 25

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

31 37 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 #887abf straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #887abf; }
.text { color: #887abf; }
.border { border: 2px solid #887abf; }

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 #887abf against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #887abf 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 #887abf 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 #887abf 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 #887abf 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.