Medium purple

#8b6fd7

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

Medium purple is a mid purple with a grounded cast. 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 #8b6fd7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8b6fd7

RGB139, 111, 215

HSL256, 57%, 64%

HSV256, 48%, 84%

CMYK35%, 48%, 0%, 16%

Lab53.78, 34.29, -49.79

XYZ28.6, 21.76, 66.98

Decimal9138135

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2715 C

Shades of medium purple

#7858d1 #6641ca #5834ba #4d2da3 #42278c #372074 #2c1a5d #211346 #160d2f #0b0718

Tints of medium purple

#957cdb #a089de #aa96e2 #b5a3e5 #bfb0e9 #cabded #d4caf0 #dfd7f4 #e9e4f8 #f4f1fb

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#bbd76f Analogous#6f87d7 Analogous#bf6fd7 Triadic#d78b6f Triadic#6fd78b Split complementary#d7bf6f Split complementary#87d76f

Medium 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 35, 48, 0, 16.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8b6fd7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

35 48 0 16

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

36 48 4 22

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 #8b6fd7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8b6fd7; }
.text { color: #8b6fd7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8b6fd7; }

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 #8b6fd7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8b6fd7 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 #8b6fd7 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 #8b6fd7 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

The figures for #8b6fd7 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.