Purple

#a49ead

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 grey. 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.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #a49ead, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a49ead

RGB164, 158, 173

HSL264, 8%, 65%

HSV264, 9%, 68%

CMYK5%, 9%, 0%, 32%

Lab66.03, 5.07, -7.0

XYZ35.08, 35.36, 44.51

Decimal10788525

Web safe#999999

Pantone5295 C

Shades of purple

#958e9f #857d91 #766e83 #686172 #595362 #4a4552 #3b3741 #2d2a31 #1e1c21 #0f0e11

Tints of purple

#aca7b4 #b4afbc #bdb8c3 #c5c1cb #cdcad2 #d5d2d9 #dddbe1 #e6e4e8 #eeedef #f6f5f7

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#a7ad9e Analogous#9ea0ad Analogous#ac9ead Triadic#ada49e Triadic#9eada4 Split complementary#adac9e Split complementary#a0ad9e

Purple in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 5, 9, 0, 32.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a49ead on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

5 9 0 32

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

9 12 4 38

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 #a49ead straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a49ead; }
.text { color: #a49ead; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a49ead; }

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 #a49ead against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a49ead 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 #a49ead 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 #a49ead 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

Here is how the numbers for #a49ead are worked out. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.