Medium purple

#a481bc

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. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Medium purple color values

Every conversion for #a481bc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a481bc

RGB164, 129, 188

HSL276, 31%, 62%

HSV276, 31%, 74%

CMYK13%, 31%, 0%, 26%

Lab59.18, 24.64, -25.83

XYZ32.24, 27.22, 51.13

Decimal10781116

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2577 C

Shades of medium purple

#966eb2 #895ca8 #7a5097 #6b4684 #5c3c71 #4d325f #3e284c #2e1f39 #1f1527 #100b14

Tints of medium purple

#ac8cc2 #b598c8 #bda3ce #c5afd4 #cdbada #d6c6e0 #ded1e7 #e6dced #eee8f3 #f7f3f9

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#99bc81 Analogous#8681bc Analogous#bc81b7 Triadic#bca481 Triadic#81bca4 Split complementary#b7bc81 Split complementary#81bc86

Medium purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 13, 31, 0, 26.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a481bc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

13 31 0 26

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

16 33 4 32

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 #a481bc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a481bc; }
.text { color: #a481bc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a481bc; }

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 #a481bc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a481bc 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 #a481bc 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 #a481bc 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 #a481bc 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.