Medium purple

#987dc6

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 soft. 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 #987dc6, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#987dc6

RGB152, 125, 198

HSL262, 39%, 63%

HSV262, 37%, 78%

CMYK23%, 37%, 0%, 22%

Lab57.48, 25.49, -34.24

XYZ30.48, 25.42, 56.73

Decimal9993670

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2715 C

Shades of medium purple

#8869bd #7854b4 #6a48a4 #5d3f8f #4f367b #422d67 #352452 #281b3e #1b122a #0e0915

Tints of medium purple

#a189cb #ab95d0 #b4a0d5 #bdacdb #c7b8e0 #d0c4e5 #d9cfea #e3dbef #ece7f4 #f5f3fa

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#abc67d Analogous#7d87c6 Analogous#bc7dc6 Triadic#c6987d Triadic#7dc698 Split complementary#c6bc7d Split complementary#86c67d

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 23, 37, 0, 22.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #987dc6 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

23 37 0 22

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

25 38 4 28

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 #987dc6 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #987dc6; }
.text { color: #987dc6; }
.border { border: 2px solid #987dc6; }

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 #987dc6 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #987dc6 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 #987dc6 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 #987dc6 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

Every value on this page for #987dc6 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.