Medium purple

#8f66dc

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

This is Medium purple, a strong purple at 261 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 #8f66dc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8f66dc

RGB143, 102, 220

HSL261, 63%, 63%

HSV261, 54%, 86%

CMYK35%, 54%, 0%, 14%

Lab52.41, 41.73, -54.78

XYZ29.0, 20.51, 70.14

Decimal9397980

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone265 C

Shades of medium purple

#7e4ed7 #6c37d1 #5f2cbf #5326a7 #47218f #3b1b78 #301660 #241148 #180b31 #0c0619

Tints of medium purple

#9974df #a382e2 #ad90e6 #b89de9 #c2abec #ccb9ef #d6c7f2 #e0d5f5 #eae3f9 #f4f0fc

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#b3dc66 Analogous#6678dc Analogous#ca66dc Triadic#dc8f66 Triadic#66dc8f Split complementary#dcca66 Split complementary#78dc66

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 35, 54, 0, 14.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8f66dc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

35 54 0 14

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

36 54 4 20

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 #8f66dc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8f66dc; }
.text { color: #8f66dc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8f66dc; }

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 #8f66dc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8f66dc 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 #8f66dc 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 #8f66dc 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

The figures for #8f66dc come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.