Medium purple

#a08cc2

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

This is Medium purple, a soft purple at 262 degrees. 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 #a08cc2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a08cc2

RGB160, 140, 194

HSL262, 31%, 65%

HSV262, 28%, 76%

CMYK18%, 28%, 0%, 24%

Lab61.76, 18.4, -25.29

XYZ33.61, 30.12, 55.08

Decimal10521794

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone271 C

Shades of medium purple

#9078b7 #7f64ad #70549f #624a8b #543f77 #463563 #382a4f #2a203c #1c1528 #0e0b14

Tints of medium purple

#a996c7 #b1a1cd #baabd2 #c2b5d8 #cbc0dd #d3cae3 #dcd4e8 #e4dfee #ede9f3 #f5f3f9

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#aec28c Analogous#8c93c2 Analogous#bb8cc2 Triadic#c2a08c Triadic#8cc2a0 Split complementary#c2bb8c Split complementary#93c28c

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 18, 28, 0, 24.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a08cc2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

18 28 0 24

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

21 30 4 30

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 #a08cc2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a08cc2; }
.text { color: #a08cc2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a08cc2; }

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 #a08cc2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a08cc2 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 #a08cc2 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 #a08cc2 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 #a08cc2 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.