Medium purple

#985cd5

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

Medium purple falls in the purple range, mid and strong. 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 #985cd5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#985cd5

RGB152, 92, 213

HSL270, 59%, 60%

HSV270, 57%, 84%

CMYK29%, 57%, 0%, 16%

Lab50.84, 47.66, -53.26

XYZ28.79, 19.13, 65.13

Decimal9985237

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone265 C

Shades of medium purple

#8a46cf #7c33c7 #6f2eb1 #61289b #532285 #461d70 #38175a #2b1244 #1d0c2e #0f0618

Tints of medium purple

#a16bd9 #ab7add #b489e1 #be98e4 #c7a6e8 #d0b5ec #dac4f0 #e3d3f4 #ede2f8 #f6f1fb

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#99d55c Analogous#5c5cd5 Analogous#d55cd5 Triadic#d5985c Triadic#5cd598 Split complementary#d5d55c Split complementary#5dd55c

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 29, 57, 0, 16.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #985cd5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

29 57 0 16

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

31 56 4 22

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 #985cd5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #985cd5; }
.text { color: #985cd5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #985cd5; }

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 #985cd5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #985cd5 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 #985cd5 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 #985cd5 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

Here is how the numbers for #985cd5 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.