Medium purple

#a384cc

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 266 degrees. 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 #a384cc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a384cc

RGB163, 132, 204

HSL266, 41%, 66%

HSV266, 35%, 80%

CMYK20%, 35%, 0%, 20%

Lab60.47, 26.21, -32.89

XYZ34.25, 28.65, 60.85

Decimal10716364

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2715 C

Shades of medium purple

#936ec3 #8359ba #7348ad #653f97 #563682 #482d6c #3a2456 #2b1b41 #1d122b #0e0916

Tints of medium purple

#ab8fd1 #b49ad5 #bca5da #c4b0de #ccbbe3 #d5c6e7 #ddd1ec #e5dcf1 #ede7f5 #f6f2fa

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#adcc84 Analogous#8489cc Analogous#c784cc Triadic#cca384 Triadic#84cca3 Split complementary#ccc784 Split complementary#89cc84

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 20, 35, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a384cc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

20 35 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

22 36 4 26

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 #a384cc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a384cc; }
.text { color: #a384cc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a384cc; }

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 #a384cc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a384cc 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 #a384cc 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 #a384cc 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

Every value on this page for #a384cc is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.