Medium purple

#a08bee

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

Medium purple sits in the blue band, light and strong. Light blues like this feel trustworthy, common in finance and software. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #a08bee, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a08bee

RGB160, 139, 238

HSL253, 74%, 74%

HSV253, 42%, 93%

CMYK33%, 42%, 0%, 7%

Lab63.44, 29.67, -47.21

XYZ39.16, 32.11, 85.02

Decimal10521582

Web safe#9999ff

Pantone2715 C

Shades of medium purple

#876dea #6f4fe5 #5630e1 #441ed0 #3a1ab2 #301694 #261175 #1d0d57 #130839 #09041b

Tints of medium purple

#a895ef #b09ff1 #b9a9f2 #c1b3f4 #c9bdf5 #d1c7f7 #dad1f8 #e2dbfa #eae5fb #f2effd

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#d9ee8b Analogous#8ba7ee Analogous#d28bee Triadic#eea08b Triadic#8beea0 Split complementary#eed28b Split complementary#a7ee8b

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 33, 42, 0, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a08bee on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

33 42 0 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

34 43 4 13

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #a08bee straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a08bee; }
.text { color: #a08bee; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a08bee; }

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 #a08bee against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a08bee 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 #a08bee 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 #a08bee 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 #a08bee come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.