Medium purple

#8c5dbb

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. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #8c5dbb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8c5dbb

RGB140, 93, 187

HSL270, 41%, 55%

HSV270, 50%, 73%

CMYK25%, 50%, 0%, 27%

Lab48.25, 37.76, -42.54

XYZ23.7, 16.99, 49.04

Decimal9199035

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone814 C

Shades of medium purple

#804bb4 #7344a2 #673d91 #5a357f #4e2e6d #41275c #351f4a #281839 #1c1027 #0f0916

Tints of medium purple

#976cc1 #a17bc8 #ac8ace #b699d4 #c1a8da #ccb7e1 #d6c6e7 #e1d5ed #ebe3f3 #f6f2fa

Colors that go with medium purple

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Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 25, 50, 0, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8c5dbb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 50 0 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 50 4 33

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 #8c5dbb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8c5dbb; }
.text { color: #8c5dbb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8c5dbb; }

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 #8c5dbb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8c5dbb 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 #8c5dbb 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 #8c5dbb 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

Here is how the numbers for #8c5dbb are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.