Purple

#8c689d

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

Purple falls in the purple range, mid and muted. 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.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #8c689d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8c689d

RGB140, 104, 157

HSL281, 21%, 51%

HSV281, 34%, 62%

CMYK11%, 34%, 0%, 38%

Lab49.39, 24.46, -23.22

XYZ21.85, 17.91, 34.2

Decimal9201821

Web safe#996699

Pantone667 C

Shades of purple

#805e90 #745582 #674c74 #5b4266 #4e3958 #42304a #36273c #291e2f #1d1521 #100c13

Tints of purple

#9776a6 #a184af #ac92b8 #b7a0c1 #c1aeca #ccbcd4 #d7cadd #e1d8e6 #ece6ef #f7f4f8

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#799d68 Analogous#72689d Analogous#9d6893 Triadic#9d8c68 Triadic#689d8c Split complementary#939d68 Split complementary#689d71

Purple in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 11, 34, 0, 38.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8c689d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

11 34 0 38

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

14 35 4 44

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 #8c689d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8c689d; }
.text { color: #8c689d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8c689d; }

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 #8c689d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8c689d 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 #8c689d 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 #8c689d 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

Here is how the numbers for #8c689d are worked out. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.