Medium purple

#a68cd2

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 #a68cd2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a68cd2

RGB166, 140, 210

HSL262, 44%, 69%

HSV262, 33%, 82%

CMYK21%, 33%, 0%, 18%

Lab62.94, 23.95, -32.4

XYZ36.74, 31.52, 65.12

Decimal10915026

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2645 C

Shades of medium purple

#9475c9 #825ec0 #7147b7 #633fa0 #543689 #462d72 #38245b #2a1b44 #1c122d #0e0916

Tints of medium purple

#ae96d6 #b6a0da #beabde #c6b5e2 #cebfe6 #d5c9ea #ddd4ee #e5def2 #ede8f6 #f5f2fa

Colors that go with medium purple

Complementary#b8d28c Analogous#8c95d2 Analogous#c98cd2 Triadic#d2a68c Triadic#8cd2a6 Split complementary#d2c98c Split complementary#95d28c

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 21, 33, 0, 18.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a68cd2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

21 33 0 18

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

23 34 4 24

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 #a68cd2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a68cd2; }
.text { color: #a68cd2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a68cd2; }

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 #a68cd2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a68cd2 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 #a68cd2 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 #a68cd2 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

Here is how the numbers for #a68cd2 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.