Medium purple

#896ab8

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

Medium purple falls in the purple range, mid and soft. 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.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #896ab8, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#896ab8

RGB137, 106, 184

HSL264, 35%, 57%

HSV264, 42%, 72%

CMYK26%, 42%, 0%, 28%

Lab50.79, 28.68, -36.81

XYZ24.12, 19.09, 47.76

Decimal9005752

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone814 C

Shades of medium purple

#7b58b0 #6e4da1 #624490 #563c7e #4a346d #3e2b5b #322349 #261b38 #1a1226 #0e0a15

Tints of medium purple

#9478bf #9f85c5 #aa93cc #b4a1d2 #bfaed9 #cabcdf #d5cae6 #e0d8ec #ebe5f3 #f5f3f9

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#99b86a Analogous#6a72b8 Analogous#b06ab8 Triadic#b8896a Triadic#6ab889 Split complementary#b8b06a Split complementary#72b86a

Medium purple in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 26, 42, 0, 28.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #896ab8 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

26 42 0 28

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

28 43 4 34

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Medium purple in css

Copy #896ab8 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #896ab8; }
.text { color: #896ab8; }
.border { border: 2px solid #896ab8; }

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 #896ab8 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #896ab8 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #896ab8 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn medium purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #896ab8 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.

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How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #896ab8 is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.