Purple

#9181a2

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 #9181a2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#9181a2

RGB145, 129, 162

HSL269, 15%, 57%

HSV269, 20%, 64%

CMYK10%, 20%, 0%, 36%

Lab56.42, 12.64, -15.34

XYZ26.05, 24.33, 37.51

Decimal9535906

Web safe#999999

Pantone5285 C

Shades of purple

#847297 #776589 #6a5a7a #5d4f6b #50445d #43394e #362e3f #292330 #1c1821 #0f0d12

Tints of purple

#9b8dab #a598b3 #afa4bc #b9afc4 #c4bbcd #cec6d5 #d8d2de #e2dee6 #ece9ef #f6f5f7

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#92a281 Analogous#8181a2 Analogous#a281a2 Triadic#a29181 Triadic#81a291 Split complementary#a2a281 Split complementary#82a281

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 10, 20, 0, 36.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #9181a2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

10 20 0 36

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

13 22 4 42

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.

Purple in css

Copy #9181a2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #9181a2; }
.text { color: #9181a2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #9181a2; }

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 #9181a2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #9181a2 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #9181a2 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #9181a2 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

Every value on this page for #9181a2 is computed, not guessed. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.