Medium purple

#8974cd

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

Medium purple sits in the blue band, mid and soft. 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 #8974cd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8974cd

RGB137, 116, 205

HSL254, 47%, 63%

HSV254, 43%, 80%

CMYK33%, 43%, 0%, 20%

Lab54.26, 28.2, -43.37

XYZ27.58, 22.22, 60.59

Decimal9008333

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2715 C

Shades of medium purple

#775fc5 #6549be #583eac #4d3697 #422f81 #37276c #2c1f57 #211741 #16102c #0b0817

Tints of medium purple

#9481d2 #9e8dd6 #a99adb #b4a6df #beb3e4 #c9c0e8 #d4cced #ded9f1 #e9e5f6 #f4f2fa

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#b8cd74 Analogous#748bcd Analogous#b574cd Triadic#cd8974 Triadic#74cd89 Split complementary#cdb574 Split complementary#8ccd74

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 33, 43, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8974cd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

33 43 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

34 44 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 #8974cd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8974cd; }
.text { color: #8974cd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8974cd; }

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 #8974cd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8974cd 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 #8974cd 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 #8974cd 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

Every value on this page for #8974cd is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.