Purple

#a181aa

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

Purple falls in the purple range, mid and muted. 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.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #a181aa, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a181aa

RGB161, 129, 170

HSL287, 19%, 59%

HSV287, 24%, 67%

CMYK5%, 24%, 0%, 33%

Lab58.21, 19.83, -17.08

XYZ29.8, 26.18, 41.51

Decimal10584490

Web safe#999999

Pantone521 C

Shades of purple

#95719f #886392 #795882 #6a4d72 #5b4262 #4c3852 #3e2d42 #2f2232 #201722 #110c12

Tints of purple

#aa8db2 #b298ba #bba4c1 #c3afc9 #ccbbd1 #d5c6d9 #ddd2e0 #e6dde8 #eee9f0 #f7f4f8

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#8aaa81 Analogous#8c81aa Analogous#aa819f Triadic#aaa181 Triadic#81aaa1 Split complementary#9faa81 Split complementary#81aa8c

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 5, 24, 0, 33.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a181aa on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

5 24 0 33

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

9 26 4 39

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.

Purple in css

Copy #a181aa straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a181aa; }
.text { color: #a181aa; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a181aa; }

How purple looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Purple and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #a181aa against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a181aa against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Purple on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #a181aa sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around 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 purple into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #a181aa 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 purple, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #a181aa 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. 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.