Medium purple

#9478ae

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

This is Medium purple, a muted purple at 271 degrees. 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 #9478ae, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#9478ae

RGB148, 120, 174

HSL271, 25%, 58%

HSV271, 31%, 68%

CMYK15%, 31%, 0%, 32%

Lab54.85, 21.54, -24.63

XYZ26.57, 22.78, 43.04

Decimal9730222

Web safe#996699

Pantone272 C

Shades of medium purple

#8768a4 #7a5a97 #6c5186 #5f4776 #523d65 #453355 #372945 #2a1f34 #1d1524 #0f0b13

Tints of medium purple

#9e84b5 #a891bd #b19dc4 #bbaacc #c5b6d3 #cfc2db #d9cfe2 #e3dbe9 #ece7f1 #f6f4f8

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#92ae78 Analogous#7978ae Analogous#ae78ad Triadic#ae9478 Triadic#78ae94 Split complementary#adae78 Split complementary#78ae79

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 15, 31, 0, 32.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #9478ae on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

15 31 0 32

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

18 33 4 38

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 #9478ae straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #9478ae; }
.text { color: #9478ae; }
.border { border: 2px solid #9478ae; }

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 #9478ae against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #9478ae 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 #9478ae 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 #9478ae 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.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #9478ae come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.