Purple

#8a709c

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

This is Purple, a muted purple at 275 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.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #8a709c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8a709c

RGB138, 112, 156

HSL275, 18%, 53%

HSV275, 28%, 61%

CMYK12%, 28%, 0%, 39%

Lab51.14, 18.87, -19.95

XYZ22.28, 19.39, 34.02

Decimal9072796

Web safe#996699

Pantone667 C

Shades of purple

#7e6490 #725a82 #665174 #594766 #4d3d58 #41334a #352a3c #28202e #1c1620 #100d12

Tints of purple

#957da5 #a08aae #ab98b8 #b5a5c1 #c0b2ca #cbbfd3 #d6cddc #e1dae5 #ece7ef #f6f4f8

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#829c70 Analogous#74709c Analogous#9c7098 Triadic#9c8a70 Triadic#709c8a Split complementary#989c70 Split complementary#709c74

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 12, 28, 0, 39.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8a709c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

12 28 0 39

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

15 30 4 45

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.

Purple in css

Copy #8a709c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8a709c; }
.text { color: #8a709c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8a709c; }

How purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #8a709c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8a709c against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #8a709c sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around 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 purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #8a709c 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 purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #8a709c come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.