Purple

#a4a0ae

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

This is Purple, a grey purple at 257 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.

Purple color values

Every conversion for #a4a0ae, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a4a0ae

RGB164, 160, 174

HSL257, 8%, 65%

HSV257, 8%, 68%

CMYK6%, 8%, 0%, 32%

Lab66.59, 4.16, -6.73

XYZ35.52, 36.09, 45.14

Decimal10789038

Web safe#999999

Pantone5295 C

Shades of purple

#9490a0 #857f92 #757083 #676273 #585462 #494652 #3b3842 #2c2a31 #1d1c21 #0f0e11

Tints of purple

#aca9b5 #b4b1bd #bdbac4 #c5c2cb #cdcbd2 #d5d3da #dddce1 #e5e4e8 #eeedf0 #f6f5f7

Colors that go with purple

Complementary#aaaea0 Analogous#a0a3ae Analogous#aba0ae Triadic#aea4a0 Triadic#a0aea4 Split complementary#aeaba0 Split complementary#a3aea0

Purple in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 6, 8, 0, 32.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a4a0ae on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

6 8 0 32

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 11 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 #a4a0ae straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a4a0ae; }
.text { color: #a4a0ae; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a4a0ae; }

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 #a4a0ae against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a4a0ae 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 #a4a0ae 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 #a4a0ae 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

Every value on this page for #a4a0ae is computed, not guessed. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.