Medium purple

#8e6bbd

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

This is Medium purple, a soft purple at 266 degrees. 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 #8e6bbd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8e6bbd

RGB142, 107, 189

HSL266, 38%, 58%

HSV266, 43%, 74%

CMYK25%, 43%, 0%, 26%

Lab51.77, 30.78, -38.12

XYZ25.6, 19.94, 50.64

Decimal9333693

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2655 C

Shades of medium purple

#8059b5 #734ba8 #664396 #5a3b83 #4d3271 #412a5f #34224c #271a3a #1b1228 #0e0915

Tints of medium purple

#9879c3 #a386c9 #ad94cf #b7a1d5 #c2afdb #ccbce1 #d7cae7 #e1d8ed #ebe5f3 #f6f3f9

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#9abd6b Analogous#6b71bd Analogous#b76bbd Triadic#bd8e6b Triadic#6bbd8e Split complementary#bdb76b Split complementary#71bd6b

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 25, 43, 0, 26.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8e6bbd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 43 0 26

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 44 4 32

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 #8e6bbd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8e6bbd; }
.text { color: #8e6bbd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8e6bbd; }

How medium purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

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Medium purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #8e6bbd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8e6bbd 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 #8e6bbd 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 #8e6bbd 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 #8e6bbd 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.