Medium purple

#9973d2

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. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #9973d2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#9973d2

RGB153, 115, 210

HSL264, 51%, 64%

HSV264, 45%, 82%

CMYK27%, 45%, 0%, 18%

Lab55.77, 34.44, -43.71

XYZ30.9, 23.69, 63.92

Decimal10056658

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2715 C

Shades of medium purple

#895dcb #7946c4 #6a3ab3 #5d329d #502b87 #432470 #351d5a #281644 #1b0f2d #0e0717

Tints of medium purple

#a280d6 #ab8cda #b599de #bea6e2 #c7b2e6 #d0bfea #daccee #e3d8f3 #ece5f7 #f5f1fb

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#acd273 Analogous#737cd2 Analogous#c873d2 Triadic#d29973 Triadic#73d299 Split complementary#d2c873 Split complementary#7dd273

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 27, 45, 0, 18.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #9973d2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

27 45 0 18

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

29 45 4 24

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.

Medium purple in css

Copy #9973d2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #9973d2; }
.text { color: #9973d2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #9973d2; }

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 #9973d2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #9973d2 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #9973d2 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn medium purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #9973d2 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 #9973d2 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. 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.